Quotes About Fame

I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted.

QB's have it good. They don't take any hits. They have the most pay. The most glamour.

I really thought that Billy Joel had two hits. I thought it was 'Uptown Girl' and 'Piano Man,' and that was basically it.

I've always wanted to have one of those hits on the radio, but we haven't really been able to crack that code.

I feel a whole lot of gratitude for having hits.

We all make films to be hits.

I just feel really lucky to have had some hits because we had a lot of time where we didn't have them. It's better to have a hit. You can ask anyone - U2, Green Day - and they'll tell you the same thing.

I would hate to go out as a legend on tour just playing all the back hits.

When I had hits at country radio, that's what got my career off the ground and made my career.

Being involved in 'The Hobbit' has been a huge boost for me. It's really put me on the map and helped me be taken more seriously as an actor.

People know me from a hockey game, from an earthquake, from the O.J case.

People who know the game of hockey, who followed hockey, they know who Sandeep Singh is. They know I have been Indian Hockey team's captain, but they don't know about the struggle and the life after being shot.

I have met people who have called me the god of hockey, but in my head, I know who I am.

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Unfortunately, everyone thought that Teri Hatcher was my wife. Matter of fact, I would be with my wife, holding my wife's hand at a football game, and someone would come up to me and say, 'Hey, I love those commercials you do with your wife.' My kids almost had shirts made up that said, 'Teri Hatcher is not my mom.'

I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'

I had a little glimpse of what fame holds, and I decided it held a load of nothing.

Even after the first three series, I'm sure I would've been known all my life as James Herriot. I was concerned that I would dig the hole deeper, and I'm sure that's what I've done. I'm sure of it.

When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.