Quotes About Fame

The biggest auditions can be the most freeing. The odds are always stacked against you and you always expect someone famous to get the part, so it eases the pressure.

When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you.

We did eight gigs in super-stadiums, all the biggest joints - L.A. Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum, Shea Stadium.

I don't want to play on the grandstand. I want to play on the stadium.

Whitaker is nothing without me. He can't fill an arena or stadium. He's nobody.

I sell out arenas now. I'm a stadium guy.

Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.

Every year, we couldn't believe it, and even when I look back on it now, to sell 14 million singles, 50 million albums and sell out arenas and stadiums, what Westlife achieved was crazy. It's like One Direction probably don't realise how big they are. They'll look back one day and think, 'Holy God, that was pretty amazing.'

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

The big stadiums, sold-out crowds and games with massive things riding on them; as players these are games you want to be playing in. It's a chance to write your name in the history books.

My family is as far from a stage family as you could ever possibly find.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

I loved entertainment and acting, performing. I just liked the stage and having the spotlight and stuff.

I would love for people to look at me as a great singer but also know exactly who I am, the way that we have loved and respected people like Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle, having gone through the different stages of their lives with them. That's the type of history I want to have.

A lot of paparazzi wanted to be real photographers but they failed, and they did that instead, and it's not right; it's stalking.

In college, I was up under this microscope everywhere I went. I couldn't go to class without somebody stalking me or asking me for something, an autograph or a picture.

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now.

Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.

I knew I'd made it when my face appeared on a stamp.

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.