Quotes About Fame

I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now.

Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.

I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.

Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

I don't have a normal life.

My life feels so surreal. That's why I've made a shtick of being me.

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

I liked the idea of using this mega-star [Beyoncé ] to talk about all those things on the tiny scale of my life.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

I've never understood musicians who don't enjoy doing promotional interviews. I just can't believe it. I always think, 'Your life must have been so brilliant before you were in a band.'

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

People just - they don't really know me. They see me on "The Simple Life," they think that's really who I am.

Everything changes all the time, and unfortunately, everyone who knows what you do by buying records only hears a small amount of what's going on in your life.

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

Believing that all famous people have tons of money saved up.

When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.