Quotes About Fame

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

Half the people who snuff people, that's what they want: recognition. Get their picture in the paper.

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

When people want me to sign an autograph in a restaurant, and I'm eating. I don't even have to say no, I just kind of stop and look at them ... "Oh, okay. I'll ... I'll come back."

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.

The more dignity is widely and freely available in a society, the less people want to be famous.

If you're going to be a myth or want to be a myth, you'd better die young.

It's not my fault everybody wants me

Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame.

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.

It would be great to be super-human, to give the fans just what they want.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

Nico [Rosberg] is not seeking the limelight as Lewis [Hamilton] does. Lewis wants to be famous.

I'm not a star, I hate that word, and I'm an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I'm an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.

To people who want to be rich and famous, I'd say, "Get rich first and see if that doesn't cover it."

I dont think we're the type of band people look at and say, 'I want to grow up to be just like that'. We're like a train wreck.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.