Quotes About Fame

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

I never knew the media would be so interested in my personal life.

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

I found myself getting more publicly shy when the gala events and big crowds started. Some people embrace it. To me, it's not worth enough to risk my private life being public.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

Keep your family and old friends around you. That's what I had done and that's what saved my life when it came to being famous.

You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

Fans today don't only care about achievement, but about good looks, good public appearance and good lifestyle.

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!

I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.

Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.