Quotes About Fame

They've had a hard life, the Oasis brothers. They've done really well to be semi-normal. It's always sad when your dirty linen is brought out in public.

I always loved Oasis because when they came out, they did express that they loved us, and they saw that we did it, and they thought they could do it, too.

I had a day off, and I was walking down the street one day, and this Mercedes pulls up alongside me, and Alec Guinness leaned out and said, 'What are you doing, Kenny?' I said, 'I'm just walking around,' and he said, 'Do you want to come and see an oasis with my wife and I?' There was nothing arrogant or flash about him at all.

We don't want to be as big as Oasis!

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

There's nothing more riveting than a contractually obligated 'Housewife' sit-down.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

When a high-profile celebrity sits down with you for an interview, there's no obligation for them to give you anything.

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have to stop and think; there's just not that much left.

Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.

People talk about the Ozzfest and what it can do for your career, and I guess I'm just oblivious to it.

A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today.

Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.

I like all the obnoxious Eagles stuff that just drives people crazy. I love 'Life In The Fast Lane' and 'Hotel California.'

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.