Quotes About Fame

Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.

I was in Sweden for 10 days. They put me on the front page of the daily papers eight days in a row. I did nothing to warrant any of the attention. It was ridiculous.

Warren Beatty took an interest in my career at one point.

People think of the greatest home run hitters of all time and think of Babe Ruth; they don't think about that Warren Spahn hit more than anybody.

People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.

Even once Warren Beatty found his Annette Benning, he remained a legend with the women and a best friend to many men.

Bill Gates recently picked up the ukulele. And Warren Buffett is a huge ukulele fan. I even got to strum a few chords with Francis Ford Coppola. It blows my mind that these people, who have everything in the world they could want, have picked up the ukulele and found a little bit of joy.

I had always in the past thought The Ultimate Warrior was the epitome of a guy making money with no talent.

The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.

When 'The Warrior' came out, Scandal was no more.

I was one of the first guys to talk about their characters in the third-person, and I think the character of the Ultimate Warrior certainly is a legend.

I'm a warrior at heart. A lot of other people do it for money, or they want stardom and fame because they want to be famous or they just want to be on TV, and they just happen to have the skills to be a good fighter.

I'd worked in Clockwork Orange with Stanley Kubrick and since Stanley was such a prestigious director this opened all sorts of doors for me - one of them being Star Wars.

A whole new career opened up for me when I was in 'Lord Of The Rings' and 'Star Wars.'

Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.

My strangest experience was my six words in 'Star Wars.' I've had more fanmail from that than anything I've ever done.

People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

I had some issues. When I first had to deal with being in 'Star Wars,' you know, who wouldn't?

For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.

Who wouldn't want to be in 'Star Wars?' It'd be great.

Just because I'm doing 'Star Wars' doesn't mean that'll be the thing that makes people stop me in the street.

Like any other actor, my agent called me with an opportunity. It just so happens that the opportunity was the lead in 'Star Wars.'

Despite that it's 'Star Wars' and how huge it is, it's still work to me, and that element of things grounds you, especially from nerding out a few times. Although, some days I can't control myself.

Just getting to be a part of the 'Star Wars' universe is not something most actors anticipate as part of their careers.