Quotes About Fame

The only real benefit of being famous is being recognized by head waiters and getting good tables at restaurants. The rest is part ego trip and part inconvenience.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

When we came out from the Elysee palace, there was a gigantic limousine waiting for us and four police on motorcycles. It is probably one of the few times I have experienced my fame. I thought it was so fantastic that I laughed to the point of shouting.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

Man, I pull up to Home Goods, and people are waiting on me in the parking lot.

People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.

You know, I'm not making top dollar, but when you're making top dollar, there are a lot of people waiting for you to fall.

It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.

I would like to play Pebble Beach at some point. I keep waiting for them to call and ask me to that little pro-am thing, but I'm not big enough.

We're the country of movie stars because the stars, like ourselves, represent a kind of extended infantilism, beauties waiting for the big chance.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name.

When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.

I don't wake up and say, 'Gee, it's a nice day, and I'm a legend.'

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves.

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

I've never really thought of my real life - you know, the one I wake up to and fall asleep to at night - as being a pop star's life.

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.

Like everybody in show business, you think you're going to wake up one day, and it's all going to be taken away from you. I think we all share an insecurity in that way, everybody in show business - the ones I talk to, anyway.

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

It's very weird waking around a corner and being nose to nose with myself on the side of a bus. And Times Square - that's the craziest one.