Quotes About Fame

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

People can say that I became famous because of 911. I became America's top cop, cultivated a political profile, wrote books, became a security consultant. But I'd give anything for that day not to have happened. I wish it hadn't. But it did. And I happen to be there at the time. I was there, and I did the best I could do under the circumstances. It's all any of us did.

What vanity needs for its satisfaction is glory, and it's easy to have glory without power.

Do I ever think Gossip will be really massive in America? No, I don't think it'll happen - and that's fine. It's kind of nice because I get to experience everything at once. I get to come home and it not be weird, like in Paris or something. It is nice to be completely anonymous.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

I went onto reality TV as a business decision.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

My mother is always eager to talk when I come over, as if she were a famous actress and I am Diane Sawyer.

[Of a starlet:] There goes the famous good time that was had by all.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

I cannot stand the people who get wonderful starts in show business and who abuse it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen, for example, although there are plenty of others, too. They are the most blessed people in the world, and they don't appreciate it.

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

One day GOOGLE will say my name...

Time will become as famous as place. There will be time-tourists sitting around saying, "Yeah, but have you ever been to April fourth? Man!" My life has gotten just a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just discontinuous overload.

A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

Everyone is hawking products. That's like the highest thing you can achieve now, isn't it? Become some barker. Sinatra hawks beer; he doesn't have enough money, does he?

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I'm not a royal family watcher.