Quotes About Fame

Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

Incredibly, I've been mistaken for Kylie Minogue many times. People look at me, and you can see them thinking, 'She's somebody - but I don't know who.'

I don't know if it is because I have a distinct look or not, but there are no fans that have mistaken me for someone else.

I think one of the big mistakes people make is to have fame as one of their main goals. That is the biggest mistake when you're creating art.

Among the actors, I think my name has been misused the maximum number of times in the industry.

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.

I've been ghosted by all four members of Little Mix.

I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez.

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.

I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.

People say money changes people. So does ego and so does social media. And so does the press. I think that all of that mixed in between - you really gotta keep yourself grounded.

It's funny, but people still get us mixed up. They come up to me and say, 'Gee, we still remember how great you were with Wally Berry in 'The Champ' and I have to tell them that was Jackie Cooper.'

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

I don't want to be a bad role model.

I always wanted to be a model, never an actress. I would see children in ads and stuff and wanted to be like them.

I wanted to become a model and an actress.

I got sick of modeling and I was afraid of getting overexposed.

I would like to say I've achieved goals, but really, modeling is all luck. You're not really achieving anything. The least hardworking person with a special face can be huge and have a whole world of success.

The world of modeling can be hard; just as cruel as it is glamorous.

Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.