Quotes About Fame

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform 'Oh Jean.'

Frankly, if I could get away with not having to perform, I'd be very happy. It's not my favorite thing to do.

I wanted to be famous; I wanted to perform. Those things I really, really wanted more than anything else.

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.

People know who you are when you've never met them. For them, through interviews and seeing you perform, they feel like they know you and you've never seen them before. It's really different, but it's awesome.

I act and perform in hopes of getting attention and admiration.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.

If you are on television, that one night that someone is able to see you, you're talking about millions of people in one day. That's pretty awesome because then it helps you to jumpstart your career, and if you're the one to go out there and perform, people are going to come see you because those millions saw you on the television.

It's not like I think: 'By the age of 40 I've got to be an international household name.' When the opportunity to perform comes up, then I'll take it. It's really good fun. But because I don't crave the attention or the buzz, it's not like I'm desperate for it.

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

I wanted music to be a career. To base everything on fame to me seemed a dangerous thing - I wanted my foundations to be about improving as a performer and writer. No one could push me into going down that route of being a celebrity singer.

Very few people rise that high, to be a performer known as only one name. Caruso... Valentino... Hitchcock... Garbo.

You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but hardly a new thing.