Quotes About Fame

I don't cook. I think they named the 'Mike'-rowave after me.

I was named DC's funniest celebrity.

The media named me Zeenie Babs, long long ago. I was even called Babushka.

My dad named me that before anybody knew anything about the other Loretta Lynn. She hadn't even put a record out yet.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity.

There are very few people whose names come to symbolize their achievement, even if it's a negative achievement.

When you're casting a show, you have your idea of who you want it to be, and of course, those are going to be very well-known names.

When audiences start calling you by your character's names, your job is done!

People like Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Antonio Aguilar, Pedro Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez - these are probably all names that many people don't know, but they are very popular in the music industry. They were people that I grew up listening to and aspiring to be like one day.

Not to name names, but a lot of pop female artists you see, they don't write their own songs. Lot of top male artists and boy band artists, they don't write their own songs. They're just a product. They sell, they sell, they sell. They don't care about musical integrity, any of that kind of stuff.

When I see a billboard that literally just has five names, and they're all A-listers, I'm just like, What is that bringing to the world that's new?

I kind of feel bad that I don't know the names of the people in Girls Aloud!

I am not afraid of star names.

I went into 'Bigg Boss' because I wanted to experience what it was like. It was more disorienting than I had bargained for. I began to forget the names of people in my life. It got scary.

Some guys' names I love announcing.

I wanted to be up there with all those names like Max Steiner.

It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point in my life where somebody would be naming a damn burrito after me.

Everybody in Naples must have a picture with me by now, but if you need another one, I never say no to a selfie.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

No one's ever done what AC/DC did out of anywhere, really. Conquered the world, mate, that was the idea from the start. A little Napoleon in all of us.

'Napoleon Dynamite' blew up my career.

There's a degree of narcissism involved in anything in show business. I mean, you can't do it without a healthy ego. Why would you want anybody to listen to you?

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.