Quotes About Fame

I tip like crazy. They'll remember me. Celebrity can be expensive.

The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.

It's a weird day and age when you can tire of icons simply by overexposure.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

I'm tired of hearing people say 'Reggie Jackson needs New York, needs the media, needs the attention.' I've always gotten it whenever I wanted it.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are.

It's a little weird: you're headlining a show on TV, and obviously, people like to associate that with material things. I drive a - what is it - 1999 Chevy Blazer. There's no more cushion on the driver's seat, and the tires are about gone.

I basically can't go to any gay bar in America without getting mobbed, which is fun and tiring.

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

None of my family had been entertainers. My Grandad liked to play 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett' on the comb and tissue paper every now and again but we never had Hughie Green knocking on the front door.

People are always saying they loved me in 'Titanic.'

I told Celine Dion not to record that 'Titanic' song. That's about as big as you can get. 'Flashdance?' I thought, 'Welder by day, disco dancer by night - who wants to see that?'

I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

I got to star in my own movies. I even had my name above the title in some cases. But what am I known for? My bit part.

Look what the Rumble in the Jungle did for Zaire. No one had ever heard of Zaire until then. After Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman for the title, no one forgets it.

I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

I hate anything with 'celebrity' in the title, where people are playing to the cameras all the time.