Quotes About Fame

I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

I won't do reality. That is done. And I don't want people following me around with a camera 24 hours a day.

A lot of people call me a celebrity chef, but I don't think that I'm a celebrity. So I want to stay keeping just a chef. That's more comfortable.

The ideal life is you don't sell a single magazine, nobody's interested, but they want to come see your movie. Because that gives you true freedom.

in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

I don't like the celebrity gossip culture, and I certainly don't want to contribute to it. I don't care about the Kardashians, or any of them.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing now, the actress thing, the star business, if you want to call it that, whatever it is, I'd be in an asylum. I'm sure of it.

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that.

I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies.

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

I guess that's the major difference between '80s-club Madonna and today's Madonna is she can get anyone she wants to show up in the studio for her.

Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way.

Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

I'm so boring that press kind of leave me alone now. People will believe what they want to believe anyway.

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous as I want to be.

I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

I keep having these bros come up to me and say, "I used to watch you when I was a fetus," and I just want to kill them.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

You know, when you have a father who's pretty well known but you don't see him, the last thing you want to do is start talking about him all the time to people.