Quotes About Fame

If I never hear of Kim Kardashian and Casey Anthony again, it would make my entire day.

People really care about Kim Kardashian: they know her, they watch her, they follow her on social media, they know about her whole family. It's more than just being a fan.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Mostly, people want to take pictures sometimes of me, or they'll say, 'Hey.' That's been kinda cool.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

I'm lucky because my two best friends are from kindergarten so they never thought that it was a big deal that I was in acting; they don't even ever talk about it. They still act all confused, like, 'What's going on?' when we go places and people come up to me.

There are only two kinds of roles that work in Bollywood, the sexy and the glamorous kind.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

Of the great singing stars of the 1940s and '50s, only one - Nat King Cole - died young, at age 45.

When I say I'm famous, I'm not kidding myself. I know my place in the celebrity kingdom - right at the bottom next to reality-show contestants, local politicians, and day-players on 'Law & Order.'

I did that film just so I could kiss Robert Redford.

I did movies because I was flattered and for money and because I wanted to kiss Sophie Marceau.

I love Adele. When I see her, I may kiss Adele.

Of course, Jungle Kitty got really famous when I was doing it on 'All Stars 3.' I was just writing the song, and the words came out - that was the state of mind i was in.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.

I think if you would have cut Houdini with a knife, blood wouldn't come out, PR would.

There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.

I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

I never knew you could be so known from your success.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.