Quotes About Fame

I suppose I came to a realisation that being a serious actress and being on the cover of 'FHM' don't need to be mutually exclusive.

You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that's a losing game, I would say.

I guess a lot of people don't realise, but I'm always playing a character when I'm working. When you're always having people's images projected on you, who 'Daria' is as a person sort of disappears.

One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.

It was good to be a kid because I did not realise all the things that came with the success. Going to the Games, I was asked what I expected to do.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

The trolls don't realise that they are actually helping me become more popular, and in return, I am helping them grab a celebrity's attention. I think my trolls and I are very good friends.

After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life.

I know some players like being the centre of attention and I admit that when I first became a player I liked fame, too. But that feeling lasted only for three months. Then I realised what it was really like to be the centre of attention all the time. It isn't all good.

I've often sat down with people talking about a film I've been in, and they haven't realised I was in it.

It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the side of buildings. I didn't feel that blown away by it. I was still hungry to prove myself. I realised that quite quickly, that I had to find something that challenged me from an acting point of view.

I never realised how overwhelming it could be to be loved by people who don't even know you.

I have realised that TV is extremely gratifying in the sense that people see you in their houses, and they get very attached to you.

People ask for autographs, and I wonder why before realising, 'Oh, that's right, I'm doing well in boxing.'

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

It took me years to learn to deal with the realities of fame and success. It's hard work sometimes but clearly the pluses outweigh the negatives.

I think the life of an actor is very glamorous to other people - then, realities set in.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

There are many good-looking actors.

Everybody knows who Reba is. She has one name, for goodness sakes! There's only, like, six people in the world that have one name.

Oh my goodness - Zac Efron has great abs.

The media has been sweet to me. It's because of my dad and the goodwill that he shares with them. The media genuinely loves him, and has given me a bit of that love. I'm lucky.