Quotes About Fame

Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies.

I never expected to be a movie star. It's not that I didn't want to be, I didn't think about it. I wanted to be an actor.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

I never wanted to be known as a local rapper. Not downing anybody, but you know Gucci, that's cool to me, but I want to be massive. I want to be Kanye. I want to be Eminem.

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

As long as I play ball, I can get any woman I want.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

So now 20 years later people want us to get together so they can take shots at all these old babes trying to get back some youth. I mean come on; I've been there. I know what the press would do.

Television remains an incredible tool when it comes to ensure the best promo, but one thing was always clear to me, I didn't want reality stars; I wanted stars.

I always thought that, in a way, you want your Superman to be a total unknown.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.