Quotes About Fame

I was nearly in Busted.

When someone recognises you or wants an interview, you think, 'You know, maybe I've done something good. Maybe I have a good result.' So if you see it in that way, it becomes a lot easier, and you realise that, actually, you're there and you've succeeded because of the media, because if it wasn't for them, no one in the world would know us.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.

Our choices are quite different: what attracts Salman and Shah Rukh are, I think, quite different from what attracts me. So in that sense, we are quite different, but I think we are fortunate to have had the kind of success that we've had.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.

I think the biggest thing is that success is not measured by whether or not you're on 'CBS This Morning' or whether or not you make the local news station.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

We're not pop stars. Living with success is a job; it's the music that's dear to us.

Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.

To me, success is how recognisable your face is as an actress or a brand.

I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

My biggest successes were mainly in the pop market during the 80s.

One of the greatest things about my job is that I can enjoy all the successes of a show, but can still go out in public, not like say, Michael Jordan.

Qurbani' was such an amazing film and one of the biggest successes of my career.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

People like to gossip about people who are successful.