Quotes About Fame

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.

Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

In this business, if you're a success, there's some folks who actually worship you. I have been to some places where it's impossible to walk across the stage without having the major portion of my outfit torn off for souvenirs.

If you're at the top, people worship you wherever you go. But when you're dying down, it's difficult to sell tickets!

If you look at the way people behave at shows, icons are now musicians; they are the people that we worship.

People worship anyone in the entertainment industry. You can be a used-car salesman and have a television commercial on the local station, and that makes you a celebrity.

Television brings with it two dangerous hazards: the worship of celebrity and the blurring of reality and fantasy.

We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify passionately with them and then, if they do something - anything - we dislike, we cast them off.

I've been thinking a lot about how we worship celebrity and how we have Elvis and Marilyn Monroe and Jesus all on the same playing field.

Many find ourselves in this strange consumerist entertainment bubble where celebrities have become the golden cows of our time that we love to worship and destroy.

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!'

The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.

Some of the worst things that have happened in my career, like things getting leaked, have actually been what's best for me, because people knew when I was on that show that I was really growing up.

There's male groupies - guys that wanna stand next to you to get to the girls. A male groupie is the worst.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

The worst thing about being in the public eye is that journalists write things that you can't control.

The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.

Hearing other celebrities moaning about the bad things about being famous - there is no worst thing. If you don't want to be famous, just stop it and go and be a doctor or a teacher.