Quotes About Fame

You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.

Within the black community, I'm definitely a neighborhood celebrity.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Baton Rouge is small, so when somebody like me blowup, who they used to chase around the neighborhood, who was a wild little kid, that affects people.

People don't really know about 'Neighbours' in America, and if they have heard of it, it's only in the context of 'Oh, sure, that's what Guy Pearce was on', or Kylie Minogue.

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.

I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.

Ricky Nelson... I couldn't believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

I get mistaken for Jesy Nelson from Little Mix all the time.

For people, we were never Dabboo Malik's kids, we were always Anu Malik's nephews.

Everyone thinks that it's all glamorous and I've gotten everything. When people hate me for nepotism, I'm not going to shy away from that I'm Chunky Panday's daughter.

I'm a rock star among geeks, wonks, and nerds.

She was a Bond girl; she couldn't have been in nerdy.

I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

On 'Beverly Hills 90210,' I was very young and very nervous.

Honestly, like, American football is not that big over in the U.K., so we hadn't really heard of Drew Brees before. I did know that he was, like, a massive football player. He's a massive star, so I was still a little bit anxious and nervous to meet him.

I get nervous around famous people.

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.

It's hard not to read the success of someone like Hilary Mantel as the product of a world that is too nervous, too crazy, and perhaps too interesting for some people.

I think fame makes people a bit nervous.

Every time I've been around Beyonce, I get so nervous that I forget how to speak English.

I had a nervous breakdown when I was 17 or 18, when I had to go and work with Marky Mark and Herb Ritts. It didn't feel like me at all. I felt really bad about straddling this buff guy. I didn't like it.