Quotes About Fame

The ratio of celebrity divorces is probably about the same as non-celebrity divorces; it's just that the non-celebrity divorces don't get a lot of public scrutiny, normally.

Seeing my face when they run ads for an upcoming Raw or SmackDown is pretty insane.

I've thought about what I could accomplish in football, but when you read about Mike Webster and Dave Duerson and Ray Easterling, you read all these stories, and to be the type of player I want to be in football, I think I'd have to take on some risks that, as a person, I don't want to take on.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

My dad, Billy Ray, he had a huge hit in the '90s with 'Achy Breaky Heart.' And, you know, as a kid I always said I wanted to be just like my dad. And it's crazy - just be careful what you wish for because I had the same thing he had, which was a huge hit off his first album.

When I started my career, I always had the confidence that I would one day make it, but I never imagined that I would reach the heights at which the public has placed me.

Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing.

The reality is that some Kapoors did reach the marquee; others did not.

The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

Lady Gaga reached out to us saying how much she loves our music, and we were just like, 'What?! She knows who we are?!' That's how mindblown we were.

To say how you would react if you were really storming the charts and had people running around after you... who's to say how any of us would deal with that.

It's when I'm playing a headline show I feel weird, 'cause I don't know how to react to people coming out to see me.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.

What you don't see are the cameras shoved in my face and the bizarre intrusive questions being asked, or the people falling over themselves, screaming and taunting to get a reaction.

After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself.

Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they're my family, so my first reaction isn't always, 'Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.'

Poets are supposed to be underappreciated, don't you know? There is always a strange reaction to those who become successful in their own lifetime, and so I always felt lucky that I made the living I did out of it.

I get stopped in the street now and asked, What do I know you from?' My first reaction is to say All Creatures' and they say no. I say Doctors' and they say That's it' because they are so young. I have no complaints.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

I read about myself in the papers all the time.

I think it's important that readers know that not every celebrity is a freak.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Everyone seemed to want a piece of Ronald Reagan. It was maddening.