Quotes About Fame

Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 million each. Is that enough?

I'm a shadow whisperer: I hide in the shadows. And I tend to avoid places where I might get photographed and end up with my picture in the press.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

When I first started playing, the only time you knew you would get photographed was if the paparazzi were outside a smart restaurant in town.

I know when I go out and wear a pretty dress and get photographed, I'm going to be in the press, which will help with my business.

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.

When I go out, I kind of put a hat on and glasses, so I'm kind of just like a photographer going around taking pictures, and people hopefully don't recognize me. But sometimes they do, and then I'll do a photo for them, too.

For many years, I used to run to the opposite direction when I saw photographers.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

I have always said that it is completely about the music, and I have never been interested in anything else. I think I've been able to maintain that. I'm a totally normal person, I don't get followed or have photographers waiting outside my door. So yes I have a very ordinary life.

When The Cranberries got really big in Ireland, it became difficult for me to be there with all the photographers and paparazzi.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

These days, photographers have expensive contracts with actresses, but then the actresses have to have their names written in the column because nobody recognizes them. That's kind of strange.

We're never really spotted falling out of nightclubs. We don't go to places where there are photographers hanging out.

Attention from the photographers is part of my life and I think the best thing is to learn to deal with it.

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

I don't know how many millions of photographs have been taken of me.

I hate red-carpet photographs!

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.