Quotes About Fame

Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.

I want to be on set and die hearing those words: Where's Peter?

Peter Jones is hot.

I would work with someone humble like that guy Peter Andre than Madonna.

I might not be very approachable because through my whole life, from when I was eight years old, I had people camping behind my goal and hearing the whispers, 'It's Peter Schmeichel's son.'

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

I've grown up on TV, and there were some phases that weren't pretty.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar are phenomenal.

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

One of my favorite credits is to say that I worked behind Marilyn Monroe, and I love saying that. She was phenomenal.

Pepe is a phenomenal player, everyone knows that.

'Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

I think part of the beauty of being a pop phenomenon is that you're going 1,000 miles per hour, and it's all happening - and that's also the hard part about it.

When it comes to the fame side of things. I don't think anybody, whether they're famous or not, could claim to understand that phenomenon or have any sort of power over it.

The phenomenon of fame is literally invisible, but it influences and dominates your life if you aren't careful.

Because of my grey hair and glasses, people think I'm Phil Donahue.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me.

Apl is very humble, but he's humongous in the Philippines.

I actually quite miss being called Philippines because in the pageant it's normal for us to be called our country instead of our names. If somebody goes, 'Philippines!' I turn my head and I know that's me. Now they go 'Pia' or 'Miss Universe.' Of course that's better. But I also miss that, being called my country.

I would rather be here in the Philly Hall of Fame than the NBA Hall of Fame.