Quotes About Fame

I didn't grow up thinking, 'Oh, maybe someday I'm going to have a shoe named after me.'

Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord.

I knew that someday I would be discovered.

When I was younger, I would set up Grammy parties at my house where I would invite all of my friends over, and my whole family would sit in the living room glued to the TV. But I would just dream of someday going there, and I would watch the red carpet interviews over and over and study what was happening.

I kind of thought eventually, someday, somehow, I would be Hall of Fame, whether it was nWo, DX, or whatever, and honestly, I thought it would probably happen when I was no longer around.

In Hollywood, famous singer Elvis Presley used to wear gold chains. I was a huge follower of Presley. I used to think, if I become successful someday, then I will build a different image of mine. By the grace of God, I could do it with gold.

I knew that someday, I'd lose the fame. So, I have always kept in touch with my interests.

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.

I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go out in some sort of blaze of glory. I never thought about sort of fading into obscurity. And I've worked so hard at having a life, an identity, in obscurity and finding peace with that.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible.

I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It was just something I saw in my future. But somehow when it happened, I wasn't ready for it.

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

People think that it's ok to degenerate and disrespect someone just because they're in the public eye.

I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

I think it's cool people love to hate me.

Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.

I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.

It's nice to have famous people love you.

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love.

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me.

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous they love putting people down.

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.