Quotes About Fame

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.

When you are known, you do have people who love you very much and also those who hate you for what you are.

I'd wanted to become a doctor and couldn't - yet became the best known doctor in the galaxy.

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

I think the big thing with O.J. - I've known him since he was in high school - and he's a great kid, loves the game of basketball.

It is an advantage to be born in Kapoor family and to be known by that name, but it also a burden because there are lots of expectations from you.

The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.

Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.

In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

Nobody in England knows the real Luis Suarez.

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I am classified as an idol in Hong Kong and in Asia.

If I was 13 years old and Kurt Cobain tweeted me some advice or even just said hi, my whole world would be affected by that.

Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.

Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.

Now I love LA, but there are a lot of weird aspects to Hollywood.

You might be like, 'I want really big hits.' But when you get really big hits, and your label is making $150 million, they are people who are now interested in what you do. They are going to begin to tell you what to do, and so you become important. So your creative freedom - you're not going to have that again.

I don't think the label cares about an album... People just want their number-one record.

I never used to get calls from artists or labels, but once you have a top 20 hit, you start getting them.

I've seen a lot of artists fall out with their labels and be irrelevant when they come back.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.