Quotes About Fame

Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'

What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?

The first time an autograph hunter told me, 'You are my mother's favorite actress,' I aged twenty years.

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

Singers come and go; the music business waxes and wanes. The blues are popular and unpopular, often at the same time.

I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars and specific signs that we're being photographed.

Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn't born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.

I always say, the only time you gotta worry about getting booed is when you're wearing a white uniform. And I've never been booed wearing a white uniform.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, "No, it's not her." And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

When you see these people that are in the public eye all the time, it must get tiring.

Once he'd even reprogrammed the electronic billboards in Time Square to read: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO... accidentally, of course.

Alot of peo­ple think our lives are all about tak­ing pic­tures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're tak­ing pic­tures of you all the time.

When you've been talked about as much as I have, you'll realize how little it matters.