Quotes About Fame

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Hollywood is an illusion. These intense workplaces, with very close relationships, a few months at a time - and then it ends.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I am not an Internet superstar. I am, ironically perhaps, the most old media superstar of all time. My fame is due to broadcast television.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

We all know what happens to celebrities when their time is up - rehab and then a stint on VH1.

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their decease.

What's fame, after all? It can be what someone writes on your tombstone.

I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated, ' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant.

Celebrity was a long time in coming it will go away. Everything goes away.

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.

I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy sometimes, or it's just things that I don't necessarily want. I don't really necessarily want to be famous.

I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.

My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together.