Quotes About Fame

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.

When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I thought about. I didn't think about people getting to know my face.

My name has become a brand - it could be make-up, clothing, perfume.

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

One of the perils of being a Z list celebrity is Twitter. Its brutal.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get.

I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.

I love the fame, I love the attention, and I love the perks.

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

It is fun to see girls going mad about me or dancing around to get one glimpse of me. These are major perks of being an actor. But you need to be cautious and respectful.

I've always felt that celebrity was wonderful for a lot of the perks that it could give you.

The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.

I am just a normal guy, and suddenly I am really, really famous. It's definitely got its perks; I never have to wait in line at a restaurant.

I think that 'celebrity' and 'chef' should be a permanent oxymoron.

Everything has happened so fast for me that I sometimes can't take it all in. I'm a huge 'Friends' fan, and meeting Matthew Perry in L.A., where he was as keen to talk to me about 'Extras' as I was to him about 'Friends,' was amazing.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

I'll never take any credit for Lady Gaga or Katy Perry's success. But I knew within a month that Gaga was going to be huge.

The Anne you see on TV is me; I don't have an on-camera persona.

Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

To become a star is the beginning of the end. I don't really want to be saddled with a screen persona.