Quotes About Fame

I've been around for a long time now, and you start to hear these urban legends about yourself.

I don't want to be Tom Cruise. I'm not after some movie blockbuster career. That's not the kind of work I'm interested in. And frankly, it's not the kind of work I'm ever going to get.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

I see all the red carpet paparazzi stuff and I'm like, 'Really? Do I have to?!' I like to work and I know that's part of the job. But you kind of take it in stride.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

Having to work hard never had any real appeal for me, and that may have some connection with me being in the movies.

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

So I try not to do press and if you can keep the balance of keeping a certain degree of anonymity and do interesting work then you can hope for a degree of career longevity

I actually work at my craft, and I actually want to be the best in my category, and I want to be a true actress. And a lot of people just want fame, and there's a huge difference.

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.