Quotes About Fame

Yves Saint Laurent will never go out of business so long as I'm buying mountains of Touche Eclat.

There are only a couple characters and people in the world where, in history, where you can go anywhere in the world and say that character or person, that name, that song, and everyone knows what it is. Mickey Mouse is one, Disney, in general. In terms of gaming, Super Mario, he's everywhere.

You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

Everybody asks me questions about the inside of James Franco's mouth.

Honestly, when I left the business, in time, some people might remember you and some might say they knew the name. But, people move on and there are new interests and all kinds of different things go on all the time. So, it surprised me how people have not forgotten.

When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!

When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

To be a legend, we have to make a lot of right moves and great music.

What was weird for me after 'Amelie' was how people look at you. It moves all your relationships and sometimes even your intimate ones, and you don't understand why suddenly everything around you changes, because you are exactly the same person.

You don't grow up with Hulk Hogan as your dad and not learn a few moves.

I am not one of those actors who will abandon my flagship serial, my main claim to fame, just because I've done a hit movie.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name.

I don't wish I started later, but I was never a child star. I was in school every year and had normal friends and I loved it and here I am, so I can't say that I wish I hadn't done it. I used to say, 'No, I didn't miss any of my childhood,' but it is a very adult place to be, a movie set. Like, it's a little weird.

I always wanted to be an actress. I always wanted to be a movie star.

I never really felt like a movie star until 'Police Woman.'

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

I never really thought it would be possible to keep making films. I thought I'd get to a point where it would just stop happening, and I still sort of feel that way. I don't know if any actor feels like they are going to have a career forever, unless they're a movie star.

If you look at my job, my union card, it says 'actor.' It don't say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that's one thing that keeps me humble.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

I don't have any interest in being a movie star.

I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress.