Quotes About Fame

You don't have to be famous to have problems on social media. It affects everyone, and it's on there forever, and the things you say when you're 15 are not necessarily what you'd say when you're 25 or 35.

Frankly, TV stars are not that popular. In fact, I don't have even have a million followers on any of social media accounts.

So much has changed since the '70s and '80s when it comes to acting and being in the public eye. We'd go out to a restaurant, and there would be five or six people. Now there's a lot more, plus social media, and this desire to bring other people down.

I want to be one of the biggest social media stars ever to become an actor.

I am able to do social service only because of the name I gained from acting.

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

We were at this point of recognisability where we couldn't even walk around anymore... I was really socially anxious and strange.

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

I just feel my sexuality is private. I'm very shy about being sexy. That part of me has been so closed to the public eye. I've sold millions of records with my clothes on.

The biggest insecurity I had was my singing. Even though I had sold 70 million records, there was this feeling like, I'm not good at this.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.

Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.

I have never sold my story, done 'Hello!' magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

I've met a lot of artists who wanted to paint me. LeRoy Neiman was one. He did it from a photograph. He made 20,000 copies, and we sold them all.

How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.

Oh, Michael Jackson is Michael Jackson. And no matter if he sold 40 million records off of one record and sold 15 off his last or whatever the counts may be, Michael Jackson will be Michael Jackson.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

Guys like Todd Bridges never overcame being a child star. You can't have any big failures. I've always felt regular. I played organized ball at the rec league. At 13, they told me I sold 3 million copies. I didn't know what that meant.