Quotes About Fame

It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.

One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy.

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

Five years on TV is a really, really long time.

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

People think that being famous is just about having your picture taken all the time and being rich rich rich, and you know what?... They're absolutely right.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

Hollywood is a place of great irony at all times.

I usually don't mind giving autographs, but when hundreds of folks with paper and pen start coming at you, it's time to seek shelter.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.

People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them. But I'm much more even-keeled and subdued and relaxed than Joey Tribbiani.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

If you can make your name and your works very famous and at the same time can succeed in making yourself much unknown, you are definitely the most intelligent celebrity!

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

Every time I play in a movie, I never expect that it'll be huge. I don't like thinking about that, because it's so scary.

If I wear make-up, then people recognise me, but the rest of the time, no one really bothers.

The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.

I think it's an important time not to Google myself.

The cover I was really excited about was 'Seventeen' magazine. To me, it was much bigger than 'Time.' 'Seventeen' was where I wanted to be.

I have never thought of Angelina Jolie except the last time I saw one of her movies. I think that was years ago. It is so far away from the place I'm in right now to think of think of any celebrity.

I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.