Quotes About Fame

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Shirley MacLaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

I really don't think that the Oscar changed my career much because I didn't want it to.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

People want to know everything, and so they put you in the limelight. Sometimes, I am not down to earth, and I think I am flying away from the outer realms of reality.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

When you're on MTV Asia, you're like royalty. When you walk down the streets of the Philippines or Indonesia, everyone wants to try to touch you.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

Money and fame? I never had it, don't really know if I want it.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.

When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.

I wanted to be a stage actress. I wanted to be a New York actress and have a community with other actors. I didn't want to get famous; I always thought getting famous was a drag on you.

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me.

I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

It's flattering that people want to know so much about me and want to take the time to make up that many things about me.

There's always sacrifices. My family don't generally say that they're related to me - my sister doesn't say she's my sister - because they don' t want to be judged or lauded based on who I am.

I've been popular and unpopular successful and unsuccessful loved and loathed and I know how meaningless it all is. Therefore I feel free to take whatever risks I want.

Make no mistake, Madonna is always in control of the image she wants you to see.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

Why do people want to know what I think? I like to play the game. I don't like to give opinions.