Quotes About Fame

I'm so proud the fans still sing my name, but I fear tomorrow they will stop. I fear it because I love it. And everything you love, you fear you will lose.

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job

My star was kind of fading towards the end of the '60s and suddenly I got this call from Fellini, who just appeared to kind of love me!

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I just feel a connection with Marilyn Monroe. I just love her. I just completely feel what she went through.

Right now, I do not like kids at all. I mean, I love my fans and everything, but when you have kids following you around all day, it's like, 'Ugh, kids!' Maybe that will change when I get older.

To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive, and all the impersonators would be dead.

The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

One day the people that don't even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.

A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

I think if you're at the point where you're popular enough to sell your wedding photos to OK! Magazine then you don't need the money.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I define those who have gained fame and fortune not so much by their achievements as by how they got there—the enormous odds they overcame, the dignity and courage they displayed in the process, the way they treated people ethically and fairly along the way.

politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling, but at its best politics is an imperfect means to an altruistic end.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.