Quotes About Fame

I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off.

I guess the argument is you chose to be in the public eye and, therefore, you're giving your life up for a certain level of scrutiny and you've got to accept that. The trade-off between being on 'Love Island' and not being on 'Love Island' is very skewed into the positive.

I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements.

Miley Cyrus followed me, tweeted at me. We started messaging; we traded numbers. She's become like a friend. She's super supportive of me being gay.

I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.

It looks as if Hollywood brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

How can a guy climb trees, say "Me, Tarzan, you, Jane", and make a million?

Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

When 'I'm Sorry' came out and became such a huge hit, that made 'Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree' start selling. Then that became a huge, huge hit.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of trust from the fans and without that you don't have a career.

I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.

If lyrics sold then truth be told/I'd probably be just as rich and famous as Jay-Z.