Quotes About Fame

I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you.

There's always been a hunger in me not necessarily to be successful, but to be an icon.

You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.

To be a famously successful opera singer. I wanted that since I was eight.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.

There's no problem with trying to be successful, but it's all about just doing good work. It's not about fame.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records.

I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.

Just because you have given five successful films doesn't make you God.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron Howard, only with a much bigger forehead than either of them.

Television really has been responsible for everything that I've done successfully.

Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.

My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable.

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.

Not many know that I had done a fiction show called 'Kayaamat' for exactly one month. I also did 'Ek Thi Rajkumari,' though I don't think anyone watched the show. That was the plan - I wanted to be on TV, but in such a way that no one watched me.

I think celebrities suck.

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.