Quotes About Fame

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

I'm not under any illusion that I'm an A-lister; I don't think I'm even on the alphabet scale. But I'm in people's houses every day - I'm there when they wake up and there when they go to bed. So people think they know who I am. And, to a certain extent, they do.

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

I have no illusions of being the big box office draw. But I would like to have some choices.

My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

I think I've had an illustrious career.

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

I know very well the difference between my image and who I am.

Of course, that is true of a lot of people, whether they drink or not - celebrities or actors have an image they've created, and an image people like of them.

I could have made a lot of money doing 'Golden Girls,' and I would have been good. But the image of it! And for me to work with Betty White every day would be like taking cyanide.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

It would be a lie if I say I never imagined what G-Dragon oppa would've been like if he was a girl. I want to keep the title of 'Female GD.'

I never imagined being on television.

I'd never really imagined myself as an action star.

I never imagined that I would see my face on the cover of an EA Sports videogame.

I never imagined my career would take off this fast.

Truman Capote was a pop figure, but it wasn't until he went on David Susskind's show and had that extraordinary voice and manner that everyone could imitate, that he really took off as a figure.

If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.

I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

You tend to put your rock stars on pedestals - they seem like they've been there for time immemorial. But you realize that the rock stars have their own rock stars. They were fans and kids once, too.