Quotes About Fame

Just because I am a celebrity doesn't mean I can't say, 'Sorry.'

I'm indifferent to the royal family really, but I do feel sorry for them. We know what happened to Diana. It's an impossible situation.

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

Celebrity and actor are two completely different professions, and I don't believe that they mix if you want to maintain any sort of credibility.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

I've never sought to be known or recognized by people.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

I've never really sought out publicity.

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

I was never career-oriented, not in the way other heroines are. Of course, I took my work seriously. But I never solicited work and never sought fame or money.

I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.

We sold our souls to the devil. We lied to our families and our friends. We let down our fans.

It is true everyone is going to enjoy their 15 minutes of fame, but they're going to have to sell their souls for it. For those who chase it, I hope it's worth the drama.

The day I say I'm famous is the day I sound like a fanny.

Few people remember that I played a nun in the Broadway musical, 'the Sound of Music.'

My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

I can't say to Elton, 'Hey, let's walk around the corner and have a coffee.' Someone as well-known as that can't go anywhere in the world without being recognised. Elton has written the soundtrack to a lot of people's lives, so they feel a kinship with him, so they come up, and that does colour things.