Quotes About Fame

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it.

Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around.

Never worry about bad press. All that matters is if they spell your name right.

The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

Cara, ever since you told me at the age of four that you wanted to be Claudia Schiffer, while you were naked in the bath with a sponge on your head, I knew you were destined for great things.

There has obviously been a lot more attention on me but it's not going to change what I do or who I am. It's the same old me, playing the same old sport. I've just got to keep it casual and that's what I plan to do.

I think some fans are very passionate, they just say what they want to say but they just need to slow it down a bit. We're still only human. We're not what people think. We might be famous but we love the sport and just want to play football.

I guess every athlete has in the back of his mind being good at a sport and making it big.

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

Playing on Sky Sports doesn't really make a difference to me.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.

Channel 4 know I'm messed up. But they've got a soft spot for me.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.

I have a following, but it's small. I have this level of fame where people spot me in the airport, consistently, but they always think they're the only one who ever has. People will think they win a prize when they recognize me.

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.