Quotes About Fame

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.

When Bugs Bunny walks into rehab, people are going to turn and look. People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.

It must be tiring being Bob Dylan for the past 50 years. People act like he's not even human, which must be hard work. Every room he walks into just goes quiet.

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head.

I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.

It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don't need to be pretty anymore. I just am who I am.

I don't need material things like gold and platinum records on my wall, Grammys or Hall Of Fame nods.

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

I got my name, fame, identity and even my National award from Bengali cinema.

I really only knew the name Berry Gordy growing up, but I didn't know what he looked like or anything about him.

You can't not be star-struck by Mary Berry.

Everyone says, 'What does Demetrius Andrade bring to the table?' Besides being the best American middleweight, and one of the top three middleweights in the world, everyone knows who I am and they know how good I am.

I think celebrity is such a weird word. I see myself as, like, a personality. I hate saying the word 'YouTuber' because it draws so much negative attention but I think personality is the best way to put it.

The best way to make a name for yourself is to do well on the pitch.

I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.

Betty White is probably a very nice woman.

It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.

I just want Beyonce to be the mother of my children.

I love Beyonce.

Beyonce adores my little boy. She takes him everywhere.

I'm not Beyonce or Trey Songz or anything, so every now and again, I feel a little like, 'Are they listening to me, or am I just sounding crazy singing to myself?' I feel like that sometimes.

Well, there's no way that we can get into the mind of Beyonce.