Quotes About Fame

I wanted to look cute, hot and sexy all at the same time in 'Bigg Boss!' How else will the Bollywood producers cast me in their films as the lead actress?

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

In my previous profession, when I was a producer, scriptwriter and actor, I wanted to get an Oscar, I wanted to be popular in the U.S.A.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.

Growing up, I've always wanted to be a rock star.

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.

I wanted to build up a name for myself.

I never really wanted to base success on charts and chart positioning. For me, it's really about the shows and seeing them grow.

When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.

If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I'm kind of ashamed to be a celebrity. I don't understand wanting to read about other people's dirty laundry. I think celebrity is the biggest red herring society has ever pulled on itself.

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?

I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

In pessimistic moments, when I was trudging London in search of an employer wanting to make use of such talents as I could offer, it seemed to me, almost, that my father had got to where he was by climbing upon my infant shoulders, that he had filched from me my good name and had left me with nothing but the empty fame of being his son.

Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.