Quotes About Fame

In 2004 after winning my first Olympic gold medal I was featured in magazines as an eligible bachelor. Soon after I started receiving unique and odd fan mail, mainly from female prisoners. I've gotten prison art and love letters throughout the years.

Someone once referred to modeling as being like winning the lottery gene pool. It's such an odd way to put things, but what is different about modelling is that the industry often picks you.

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

I'm not the most in-tune guy with what is getting nominated and winning awards in general.

I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.

I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

Getting a role in 'Harry Potter' was like winning the lottery. But no one deserves an acting job.

I do not want to die being known for doing baby mama DNA tests on my show.

I don't think I'm a celebrity. I'm just a guy from east Texas who loves cars and airplanes.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

When I go home to Texas and get recognized a lot, that can be weird.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

The people of this country remember me. I may have started dyeing my beard, but I am recognized at airports, railway stations - anywhere. School textbooks have chapters on me, and somehow the sobriquet 'The Flying Sikh' has endured in people's memory.

I can tell when one of my songs is played on the radio because everybody just starts calling and texting me. It gets overwhelming because if you don't answer the right ones, they think you hate them, or you're ignoring them and are not friends anymore. It's all kind of crazy.

I love Ric Flair. He's a great person with me, he talks, texts me, sometimes we have dinner.

I get recognised everywhere in Thailand.

It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody.

I want to thank Bollywood for accepting me and loving me the way I am and my songs. Bollywood has given me the reach.

If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way.

That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I'd be suffering right now because it's out of your hands what happens to you with age.