Quotes About Fame

Robert Plant asked me to marry him, but I said 'no.' I mean, you just don't want to marry someone you've wanted to do it with since you were thirteen, because, well, if he farts, I would, like, die!

People say, 'I love 'Snatch,' I love 'Lock Stock,'' but I want to be more than a movie name. I'd love to be more of a household name.

My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

I understand being the villain is what people like. People play to that. They want to know about the villain.

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

It's bad enough that I'm an actress that wants to be recognized as an actress. Instead, I am known for doing game shows.

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

Autographs and pictures do get a little old, but I don't mind if the people want it.

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me.

Actors don't necessarily want to be famous or rich or anything else. It's a very bad gamble if that's what you're after.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

When someone asks me, 'What do you do?' under my breath I want to say, 'Ask my f--king bank account what I do,'

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me.

The TV provides pictures, therefore creates fame, and that's what makes it seductive to a lot of people. They want to be famous. They want to be recognized. And I've gotten all that out of my system.

I never really said I want to be a role model. But then when it happened I was so down for it.