Quotes About Fame

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

Fame separates you from life.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . ." "I've never much cared for horror stories.

It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.

It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.

I don't care if I never do another TV show in my life.

In my mind, not in real life. My rap name will be Optimus Rhymes. Or the Notorious B.o.B.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

I have no private life at all. I am a hunted woman. I can't take a step without being questioned and surrounded.

My private life became public.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

I never wanted to be the lead on a TV drama. It just robs you of your life, really.

I want to be able to just act and never do any interview, but I don't have the balls to stand up to the studio and say, "I'm never doing another interview in my life!"

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

The year you win an Oscar is the fastest year in a Hollywood actor's life. Twelve months later they ask, 'Who won the Oscar last year?'

May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.