Quotes About Fame

It's great to be compared to someone of the stature of Gareth Bale, but I'm happy to be Ryan Sessegnon.

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

There's a sense most notably with my movies that for people to turn up, and make them big, you have to have a celebrity status. But it's not a choice I've made. It comes to you.

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.

I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.

Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

The star family status can easily get you opportunities, but the offers dry up after a point when you don't prove yourself.

In football, the hero and legend status is given out far too easily for me.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

Obviously, I don't like to use my new celebrity status as a way to get first class service at a restaurant. For me, it's just more special to use it for good.

I don't mind doing the whole red carpet thing when I have to when it comes to publicizing a movie. But besides that, I don't like those kinds of things at all. Celebrity status is not really something that appeals to me.

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

I am not going to give in to people who try to exploit me because of my celebrity status.

I don't like having people pick me out on the street. I don't like the status - good, bad or indifferent. I don't like it. I want my private life back, and I'm never going to have it.

Despite 'Mod Squad's hit status, I never really made the inner connection that I was contributing.

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally.

I shy away from celebrity status because I don't want to be known as that guy. But I had a chance to partake in the events and the festivities of the Kentucky Derby, and that was a huge honor.