Quotes About Fame

I think I'm a focus for international attention.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I can't walk down the street anywhere in the world without being stopped. It can be an interruption, but on the whole, it's flattering.

Fame and fortune and the interstate is great and fun, but it ain't life.

I can't say if I enjoy the attention or not. It's really exhausting. But every speech and every interview is extremely important to me because it could be my last one.

I want to interview the most important people in the world and have everyone in America the next day going, 'Did you see that?'

I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.

When you interview celebrities, they're so guarded so many times, they can't reveal anything.

Whether it's a show or an interview, the way I look at it is that one day people might not want to interview me. So I want to enjoy this ride while I can.

At first, when my agent told me, 'They want you to do an interview, a piece for '60 Minutes,' I was like, 'What is '60 Minutes?''

Which is worse - being a has-been or being the guy interviewing a has-been?

Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

She was sure she wasn't ever going to go Hollywood, so she went.

Hollywood, after all, is the home of those whom silent star Mae Murray called the "self-enchanted." And having grown up in Hollywood, I've known a lot of self-enchanted people. Not since the pharaohs thought they were gods have so many human beings believed that they themselves (and not their publicists or destiny or some larger force) were responsible for the fact that so many other human beings worshiped them.

We live in a world where whoever sedates us with the most glamour and captures our imaginations with the greatest intensity becomes history.

They've forgotten about beds, and I understand, because once you set sail on a movie, you are out of touch with ordinary land. Movie-makers between movies seem like you and me; they go to parties, they shop, they swim. But they're just treading water, waiting for another injection, another ship to come take them away in film. And money has nothing to do with it. "Gabrielle

Every article about her sooner or later gets around to the subject of her lovers, who were reportedly legion. (Earl McGrath, former president of Rolling Stone Records: "In every young man's life there is an Eve Babitz. It's usually Eve Babitz.")

Which is only a darker version of the Hollywood "everything" in which the more vulnerability and ineptness you project onto the screen, the more fame, money, and love they load you with. They'll only give you "everything" if you appear to be totally confused. Which leaves you with very few friends.

Janis Joplin was always wondering when her prince would come, and the wait was such a bore that she purchased total surcease on the smooth, blank, clear, smiling lake of heroin. A famous friend of the famous

Never mind the people who wrote huge articles in the New Journalism style about politics or rock stars. But for me to get into this magazine on the strength of no facts, no plodding, no interviews, and just a romance about Hollywood High, meant I must, in the magazine's opinion, be a star myself.

I did not become famous but I got near enough to smell the stench of success. It smelt like burnt cloth and rancid gardenias, and I realized that the truly awful thing about success is that it's held up all those years as the thing that would make everything all right. And the only thing that makes things even slightly bearable is a friend who knows what you're talking about.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.