Quotes About Fame

Sometimes it's hard to open up about your personal life, your relationship because you always want the music to be in the forefront. You want the music to be the biggest carrier of everything that you represent.

I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity and options at their disposal.

I represent celebrities, but I am not a celebrity.

When I talk about celebrities, I don't dislike them - it's what they represent.

The representation that I always go back to is a pop star - whether it's Lady Gaga or Madonna, I love the way those women in pop music have always made an effort to create a specific vision.

Jackie Chan is so international. Everywhere you go, people know who he is. I hope I can be like that one day too - to be an actor that represents Asia to the world.

I don't like Hollywood. I don't like what it represents. I think that Hollywood is great if you're an actor, actress, established. But for reality people or what people perceive as reality, it's tough. People are constantly discrediting everything you put on camera.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am. Sometimes they think I'm Helen Hunt. Sometimes they think I'm Laura Dern.

I don't mind autograph hunters when I go down the fish and chip shop. As long as I get my chips.

I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunting for work. After 'The New Avengers,' I never had to wait for work again.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.

The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.

In Hollywood, they don't care about hurting anyone's feelings.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

Some of the best advice I was ever given was: 'Don't believe your own hype.'

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

I am used to the hype because I played in the NBA.

You don't really need a lot of hype and to be famous to sell songs.