Quotes About Fame

When we lived in Minneapolis, you weren't begging to do photo shoots with strange people. Just because we live in LA now doesn't mean you need to be different. It also doesn't mean you're suddenly famous.

My fame had become annoying for my enemies, and a little trying, I confess, for my friends.

SARAH BERNHARDT

Legend remains victorious in spite of history.

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.

I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25

People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

Unless you're Mary Lou Retton, in the right place at the right time with the right personality, you're not going to be on a Wheaties box and have all these endorsements.

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

We are living in the time of self-creation and you can become your own star and this is the essential set that it needs to take that selfie that's going to take you to that next place.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

They said hey look, The Beatles deserve to be number one, not Bobby Vinton. We're gonna cut your tires. Change that listing. They were dedicated at the time.

I'd much rather go out having America shocked than having America go, 'Eh, it was his time.'

From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

I have no problem walking in New York because I have a very brisk pace: By the time anyone recognizes me, it's too late, I'm four blocks away from them.

Celebrity is the religion of our time.

Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.