Quotes About Fame

Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

I can be on the Tonight Show, but not with Johnny [Carson]. He uses my name in his monologue all the time.

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

The stereotypical rock-star-trashing-a-hotel-room thing? Those days had passed by the time I was in a band big enough to do it.

It's never gone so far as me wishing I'd never done 'Quadrophenia,' but there was a time when I wouldn't talk about it because I wanted people to be interested in me for other things as well.

Our stars are quite notorious. I mean, they don't show up on time. This is, you know, something which is very, very annoying.

To come to the Oscars for the first time and be seven months pregnant is quite a thing!

Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

I'll never make it, it will never happen, because they're never going to hear me 'cause they're screaming all the time.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.

I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time

Right after 'Desperate' sold to China, we were the most watched show around the world at the time. That's really something great to be a part of.

Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

The only time I get recognised is when I go somewhere that is showing 'Coupling' on local television.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.

I'm just a guy. I get treated like I'm famous but I don't take it seriously. I take the time people take out to check me out very, very seriously.

Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood.

By the time of the '90s boom, CEOs had become superheroes, accorded celebrity treatment and followed with a kind of slavish scrutiny that Alfred P. Sloan could never have imagined.