Quotes About Fame

I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.

More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.

The 'Smallville' pilot is the one I get a lot of attention for. I did a couple of earlier ones, but the 'Smallville' pilot is the one that got things really rolling.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

I find it funny that I'm a pin-up.

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

It is really difficult to read a movie script about yourself and to think that a major actor - perhaps even Chris Pine - is going to play this role is really daunting.

'Pretty In Pink' was a huge hit for me.

When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in Slipknot shirts saying he likes my band as much as I do girls with bright pink hair.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

When one deals with stars, he is dealing with intelligent people. If they weren't intelligent, they wouldn't have arrived at the star pinnacle.

Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.

Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.

After 'Game of Thrones,' having a character like that, that's like the pinnacle of your career.

There is this perception that TV is glamorous and it is the pinnacle of your existence - I don't think it is.

When I was 14, I was 5th in the world playing bagpipes - that's how I got the name Roddy the Piper, and then, you know, eventually it just became 'Roddy Piper.'

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

No, I was an unknown when I walked in that room. He didn't know who I was from a fly on the wall.

There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.

If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.

'Wall Street' was a very important movie for me in terms of my career. I won an Oscar, and then the film 'Fatal Attraction' came right after it.