Quotes About Fame

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

It never ceases to amaze me. I'll be in a bank and I think the person staring at me is going to say, 'I saw you in 'Flying Doctors,' or whatever. But instead they say, 'You're from 'The Sound of Music.'

For some reason, the parts I play, like Boromir or Ned Stark, have a life online long afterwards. I keep seeing - what do you call them - memes?

I am down-to-earth and not one of those starry, up-their-own-butt celebrities.

I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

I will do 'Dancing with the Stars' when my career dips.

DJs are the new rock stars.

I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star. Stars fall. I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job.

I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the star system. But here in America, I can feel it. Mostly, people are very, very nice. But there are also a bunch of fanatics behind the stars.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I think, in America, for a long time you had groups that wanted to be stars more than they wanted to make music.

I feel there is a curse on rock stars.

I've been invited to do 'Dancing With the Stars' three times, but Lifetime said no.

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

I don't have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don't know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don't know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don't think you need all that stuff.

You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'

Gee whiz, I know that some movie stars don't like to be bothered, but I don't mind. I think it's part of the package, and it's not a bother.

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

I learned a lot about handling fans from established stars.