Quotes About Fame

Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

I was a teen idol and that has a short shelf life.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

A glamorous life is quite different to a life of luxury. I don't need luxury. For years, I was practically broke but I was still very vain and glamorous. And I still am.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

My life, I swear, is, like, 75% public. I have a very small percentage of my life that is private. But I do keep that private life private.

The shelf life of a movie actor or actress is so short, it's like milk.

Hollywood isn't a place, it's a way of life.

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Its weird when people come up to me and know stuff about my life. That sort of creeps me out.

I have practically no private life. I'm already used to this and ready for it. Yes, sometimes it is hard, but it is the choice I made.

I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.