Quotes About Fame

Secretly, or maybe not so secretly, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

I don't feel secure as an actor. I want to do more films and get accepted by masses.

Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.

The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation.

Of course El Clasico is a great night, but I don't have an overwhelming desire to play in that game.

It's just so overwhelming to think, 'OK, the whole world is watching this!'

People do recognize me sometimes. I occasionally get stopped and they have lovely things to say which is very overwhelming.

I am just enjoying the attention I am getting. It has been very overwhelming.

I totally owe Eminem for giving me my start.

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

My beard is owned by HBO.

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

I love the beauty and fast pace of Hollywood.

I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

Nobody knows the man behind Rajesh Khanna, because that never existed. In his last few days, he had told me, 'Pack up, show is over.'

I was one of the first ones to be on the cover of 'Society' magazine in 1995 flaunting my six packs.

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.