Quotes About Fame

There is often better opportunity attached to fame, at least career-wise. But it's a flash. You can't control it. You can't depend on it.

I'm very flattered the press wants to write about me.

I'm flattered anybody would call me a legend.

Having a biopic made is very flattering.

I think it's so strange that certain people think they know you because you've been in a film. It's very flattering, but it's also very scary.

Giving autographs is flattering.

People like to see a guy being built up; they like to see a guy go from the bottom to the top, but then once you're on the top for a little bit, people wait to see you fail, and they want you to fail, so they find flaws and they find reasons, whether it's being too nice or trying to make you out to be fake - that's what they do.

I've always said that fame is fleeting, but anonymity can last a lifetime.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

The idea of being a 'child star' always sounded awful to people my age, and so I was just very aware that these things are kind of fleeting and that a lot of it didn't have to do with me: it had to do with my age; it had to do with whatever came to mind when people thought of a young internet sensation.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

I don't understand why people take Beyonce so seriously. You don't feel like there's a living, breathing person. It's not flesh and blood. It's just flesh and flesh.

Director Baz Luhrmann flew me to New York to read for 'Moulin Rouge!' Maybe I was a little blase about it.

I've never put a lot into being a celebrity, that just flies over my head because that's not really who I am. But as you can imagine, you get exposed to a lot of different things because of what you do and I lived a pretty excessive lifestyle.

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.

I just think that models and rock stars, and actors and actresses, all tend to flock to one another.

I'd rather give one hit song than a flop film.

The God's truth: I never much cared for Tebow when he played at Florida.

The women in Europe think I'm the Beatles, they throw me flowers.

It was rough having my body develop, fluctuate and become fleshier in front of the 'Popworld' cameras.

Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and the show is going well, you're fine. I'd do anything. There's so much I want to do.

People are flying you places in business class. Everyone wants to take pictures of you and find out information about you. It's a freak-out. But the more you push boundaries, the more you get ahead.