Quotes About Fame

I don't believe in icons.

I think there's something basically wrong with the general public that they do need their icons.

I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life.

It's a very, very interesting experience to be talking to people who are such icons in their own right. When Adele came to a show, I was just talking to her, and at the time, I thought, 'I'm just having a chat with somebody.' But then I heard myself say, 'Oh, I was talking to Adele the other day,' and it's as strange as you'd imagine.

Id avoided the business as much as I could because of how little I was interested in being constantly associated with my parents.

I've never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

In an ideal world, the 'Daily Mail' would write about what a brilliant mother I am. But it's not going to happen.

When I dance, I look almost identical to Beyonce. And I mean identical. In many ways, when she becomes Sasha Fierce, she's actually just becoming me.

I'd never try to be that distinctive from the Bee Gees' sound. I'm very proud of being a Bee Gee and am always aware that I'll be identified as a Bee Gee.

Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

I would say, up until 'Anchorman,' I wasn't any kind of household name or anything, but I wasn't necessarily identified as much with being a comedian.

I guess I'm the guy from the Beastie Boys. I'm one of the guys from the Beastie Boys. I guess that's what I'll always identify myself as.

I believe it's an honor for me wherever I go in and around the country people still identify me and love me so much.

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.

You don't want to start writing songs about how your Twitter followers are going up, because one day Twitter won't exist, and you'll feel like an idiot.

I think Don King has always been an idiot in my mind. He's always been about money. I don't think he cares about anything else but himself.

I've been moved around my whole life and it's been documented, so if you get paid loads of money to go on TV and act like a right idiot... great stuff!

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.

Sometimes I think nobody is looking - and then there's still a picture being taken. There are just some complete idiots who follow us everywhere.

Most entrepreneurs, when they become successful, they turn into idiots... It's the same thing with rockstars and entrepreneurs: big money and big egos.