Quotes About Fame

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world.

Britney Spears is one of my first idol.

If I can change bodies with anyone, it would be Britney Spears because how can you not like Britney Spears?

My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!

I'm kind of like Britney Spears having a headache. Everybody wants to know about it.

There are so many odd things that happened that are centered around Britney Spears it's kind of amazing. There's just so many cultural moments centered around her existence and nothing else.

I'm not a huge fan of Britney Spears' music but I very much understand her relevance.

You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.

I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.

I revel in my anonymity. But when I'm at a specific event and gamers are there, they'll recognise me.

We're living in a time when the most famous people in the world have no specific skill set and are known for living their lives in front of the world. How strange is that? The appeal makes sense to me - it's like 'The Truman Show,' getting a chance to peak into someone's bedroom or see the way someone fights with their husband.

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League.' When that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that.

I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League'; when that came out on DVD, everyone was recognizing me from that. But as far as the amount of people in a time, nothing touches when those Capital One commercials were playing.

I don't know why, but for whatever reason, that side of life - the celebrity and the spectacle - has never interested me.

I would like to be in a really big, successful film - boffo, spectacular, $500 million!

I got recognized at the market the other day, but, no, nothing that spectacular. There's nobody fainting in the street as I walk past.

Celebrity's a spectator sport. You have to feed it.

When I'm onstage, I feel a lot of love. But I don't like crowds and random spectators.

I wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be known. Yes, it's difficult sometimes. I believe that if you're going to be in a profession like this, which is so open to criticism, to speculation, you need to have people around you who will believe in you and stand by you.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

Half the people think I write Obama's speeches; the other half think I'm on 'Entourage.' So I'm at the level of fame where people kind of know who I am, but they confuse me with other people.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.