Quotes About Fame

I'm the Christopher Biggins of reality TV.

I just don't like reality TV.

I've been on reality TV since I was 23.

I lived in L.A., and the possibility out there is endless. I could've done reality TV! It was offered to me plenty of times. But that just wasn't where my heart was. If I wanted quick fame or quick money, I could've taken that route, but it just wasn't settling right with me.

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.

Just like Bollywood, reality TV runs in my blood.

For a while, I really wasn't fussed about having a public profile. I have come to the realization that I am a lot more comfortable with it than I was.

To think the first boyfriend that you lived with is John Lennon, it's hard to make that realization to someone.

I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

For the first time in my life, in my mid-20s, I started to question things. Had I been deceived? I thought I had been destined for something great - to be Whitney Houston or Jennifer Holliday or Phylicia Rashad. I started to realize that a lot of people think that, and it doesn't happen for almost everyone.

When I was on 'Hurt Bert' on FX - and I'm not crapping on FX, I'm just being honest - there was a point when I realized that they didn't care if I died. If I died, they'd say 'Of course it's a legal thing, but think of the numbers.'

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

When I went to the Olympics, I had every intention of shaving the mustache off, but I realized I was getting so many comments about it - and everybody was talking about it - that I decided to keep it.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

I'm much too egotistical to move outside the acting realm.

We were overwhelmed by how much the first album connected with people, but I wouldn't put us in the 'pop star' realm.

Every once in awhile, the world will push up an Elvis Presley or a Beatles. But that's really outside the realm of show business.

You look at De La Hoya, and you think that he is an actor or a singer. I'd like to rearrange a couple of things on his face so the pretty boy becomes just another boxer.