Quotes About Fame

I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.

I have been a bit of a reluctant actress since the get-go, since the beginning of 'Lost.'

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

I'm sort of reluctant to celebrity.

If LeBron James, Phil Mickelson, or Reggie Bush had to rely on personality to make it in this world, they'd all be incredibly athletic rodeo clowns.

One mistake and all this attention may just disappear one fine day. So I prefer to remain grounded.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I'm trying to remain unfamous.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.

Being a celebrity, you can remain a child for ever, almost. You get away with more; you can get too pampered and it's not healthy.

When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.

In the '50s, '60s, '70s, before television became easily accessible, even the most well-known writers were not recognised. The writers remained mostly an anonymous lot then.

It seems to me that Audrey will have sensed, very early in life, that self-worth, based on fame or beauty is very short-lived and so she remained forever her basic self: realistic, aware and caring.

When you are a celebrity, nothing remains secret for very long.

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.

I had a positive remark from Johnny Rotten, would you believe? He said I was a fantastic singer. Not a lot of people know stuff like that.

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.

I'm okay if people don't know who I am, but if you remember my character that would be great.