Quotes About Fame

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?

Daniel Radcliffe

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

To be hoisted onto laps, pinched by incredulous strangers, to occasionally get my curls tugged, to be cooed at, photographed, and quoted -all this was part of the job.

Lesson one: Being a starlet is a complicated life, especially when you're four years old.

Fame is like walkin on the Beach.... every step, whether right or wrong, leaves its imprint.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn't even notice, that the British wouldn't even notice, let alone the American audience.

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We're all famous in our own hearts anyway.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

As John Ashbery once said, "Being a famous poet is the not the same thing as being famous.

The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

I've noticed a pattern in stars that start acting out in public. Every one of them felt like they grew up without love.