Quotes About Fame

Celebrity doesn't really affect the work. What affects the work is the expectations from the outside. This is what no one understands.

Fame is a by-product. It's not a goal. What matters is loving your work and loving what you do

When I was snowed under with the work of an idol, I didnt have time to think.

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

The image that everyone has of a chess player is not necessarily positive. I think it's partly due to Bobby Fischer - his rise to fame and then his descent into madness. That left a lot of people with negative stereotypes, of nerds who aren't interesting.

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'

I love the mall, and I love Howard Stern and Oprah.

I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.

I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'