Quotes About Fame

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant?

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

When I fought against Fedor, no one picked me. But then afterwards, they ask 'Who is Fabricio Werdum?'

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

'TMZ' has the cash to buy off valets and info like flight lists or even the limo list of what celeb is being picked up where and when.

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.

I've had this conversation with Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love. If they'd dated the men they dated before they picked up their guitars, things would have been different. I'm not trying to name drop, but I've had this conversation with Cher, too, who has more last names than Zsa Zsa.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

The funny thing that still cracks me up is when you get a grown man coming up to you shaking asking for a picture. I'm like 'Dude, you know I'm a scrub, right?'

It's wrong and disgusting to follow children around and take their picture and sell it for money.

I love having my picture taken. I love doing interviews.

I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.

The thing that's caught me off guard is going to dinner and people asking me for autographs or to take a picture. People coming to my house asking for autographs - that's something I really haven't grasped the whole entirety of yet.

Why should I have my picture taken when I can get paid for it?

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.

My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.

I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'

If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans, you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.