Quotes About Fame

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.

Everything that you do in this entertainment business, you build a fan base.

Backstreet Boys have an international fan base, and fans love what we do. I didn't want to be one of those artists that does something totally different so people would ask, 'Why did he do that?' Is he not proud?'

I've had a good-size fan base for a while.

This sounds weird, but when you have a male fan base, you pretty much know you are going to be okay until you're an old, crispy dude, because they're not buying your films because you're sexy.

My fan base is in Malayalam cinema, and that's where I want it to be.

I used to get a lot of fan mail.

I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

I still get fan mail for Columbo.

Who needs fan mail when you have the Internet?

Even I get fan mail.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

Wish I had a PR team. That sounds very fancy.

I have a lot of fans, but a lot of people don't know who I am.

My parents don't have any showbusiness links. They are so far away from it.

People laughed at him and said, 'you'll never be famous, your name is too hard.' But everybody knows who Arnold Schwarzengger is. I'm far, far away from where he is.

At least three times a week, I'm approached by someone who says something about 'Fargo.'

I don't think you ever really get used to it, do you? There's always another little level of shock in it and of being starstruck at the people you meet. And that's the beauty of it: you're always fascinated, because it's not a normal thing to do, is it, this acting game?

It is fascinating. No matter where I go, people recognize me.

There's such a fascination with celebrity. I think that's a very different thing to being an actor.

To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.

I want to do a fashion show one day.

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.