Quotes About Fame

You have to be very, very good looking to get ahead in motion pictures.

My kids are always like, 'Why do people always want to take pictures with you?' and I'm like, 'Because I'm your Dada, and you're my daughter. That's why.' It's definitely mostly because of 'Game of Thrones.'

People take secret pictures of me... it fries my brain. I'm just a bloke, Just come and talk to me, I'd love to talk to you.

My mother had taken me to photographer Paul Hesse, who used some of my pictures on magazine covers.

I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.

I just have friends that don't sell their pictures to newspapers.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

My pictures are airbrushed.

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

Partying and having all of those pictures taken distracts from the work that I do. It's not why I started acting. I didn't get into acting to be written about. It kind of just happened - so I accept that it's my life.

In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.

There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing anything exciting.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

I may not have the gun that Jesse James had when he was gunned down, but if there's a piece identified with him and the same place, then I get interested; it's always excited me.

He really loved baseball and loved being on the field. But Mantle was lonely in a lot of ways. He had many great friends, and by all accounts was a good, generous and loyal friend. But there were a lot of people who wanted only a piece of him.

I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.

People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

Hanging out with Pierce Brosnan on the set of 'A Long Way Down' was quite an extraordinary thing to do. The interesting thing is, he never behaves like a star. He's a really nice man.

I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

We celebrities are desperate pigs.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

I pile up the press clippings and send them off to my mother. She's got a scrapbook going back to when I was, like, eight years old.