Quotes About Fame

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

And after all our toils and dreams and prayers, 'Tis only Love for which the future cares; Labour and fame are steps along Love's way, And art is but the garment that he wears.

Everybody is a teenage idol.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been.

Time ever mocks all youthful hopes; He laughs at ever plan youth makes; He buries fame and honor deep In grave of hope--too late youth wakes.

O Fame! A bubble on life's wave, 'Tis tossed about, a worthless thing; The bubble breaks--'tis lost for aye, But leaves on heart a poignant sting.... You cut your name on granit block; As ages come and pass away, Disintegrated is the stone, For all in nature must decay.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I go to the shoe fair, I'm nobody. In Little Italy, I'm Elvis.

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be too impressed by either of those impostors. Value folk for who they are, how they live and what they give - that's a much better benchmark.

Once paparazzi become a reality, then things change because you become more conscious of photos.

I'd never go on a reality show - it's too invasive.

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

I definitely would not do a reality show.

I would never be on a reality show.

It's not my aspiration to appear on a reality show. That's the last thing I need in my life.

A sure-fire way to know you're crazy is if more than one person has told you you'd be great on a reality show - and you agree with them.

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

I got offered a bunch of reality show stuff, but I didn't want to be known for that, so I turned it all down.

Everyone's trying to get a reality show, and we're just trying to avoid accidentally being on a reality show.

The thing about being on a reality show is you'll never get respect. You're living your life on television. You're not doing anything special.