Quotes About Fame

To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

When I was younger I thought that if you were famous and successful, it would mean that you just felt happy all the time. That you would become, like, this mystical creature that people just adored. And so you would adore yourself.

People think that as a celebrity, you have to have this sort of mystique about you, but I'm probably the realest person you'll ever meet.

Some people are really good at playing the movie star - they are really good at cultivating that mystique - but I'm not really into that.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

I am not a myth.

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.

For a little while, maybe I did fall for my own mythology.

I want to be one of the greats. I feel like the money and all that is going to come, but I want to be a name that, like, when you say Nas or Jay Z, that's forever.

My name is usually the one on the end of people's lips.

My name is Kendall. Kendall Jenner. I am not a Kardashian.

I've experienced cyberbullying my entire life due to just having a last name that people knew.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

Maharashtra, Mumbai and Mumba Devi blessed me and gave me name, fame and everything else.

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

A lot of people don't know that: that Artist is my name.

My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

People named their kids after me!

Someone named Gold has never won gold, I'm told.