Quotes About Fame

I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!

Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

We don't have the big-band mentality. We never wanted to become a big band.

I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.

You can be a really terrible actor - I won't mention any names - but, as long as you're good-looking, you can get by with it. Okay, Keanu Reeves. He's a diabolical actor, but he still looks good.

I want to be great, I want to be mentioned with the best to ever play the game.

I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt.

It's been cool to have my name mentioned when people say R&B is on the comeback and I'm the leading person. If you had told me at 16 that I would be that person - you're lying.

It's such a great honor to be mentioned along The Beatles.

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

People know me as 'Wipeout Girl' or 'Mercury Girl.' They never know my name, and sometimes, maybe that's a good thing.

The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

Playing with Messi, who is the best player in the world, would be great.

Messi's career is a cinema script.

My first year I scored 10 goals in La Liga. Then people started saying 'yeah, the new Messi.'

If you are a big player you will always have a lot of pressure on you. It's the same for Eden, just as it is for Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo.

I met Jay Z. I don't really care about all that though.

Nobody wants to hear that you met Harry Truman... I met Harry Truman... But you know what I mean? Nobody's interested. They want to know you met Rihanna. And that kills me.

I've never met Charlie Sheen.

I'm not really into the fame thing. I've met so many celebrities now, and everybody's just the same. I'm a bit of a family bird.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.