Quotes About Fame

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30, on account of your sister, brother in law and your bottom.

[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling.

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.

My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

From the age of 17 I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

I would say that my peak was making my first million at the ripe age of 29, after the first album.

I can deal with it now, but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It's a tough age, period.

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

There will never be another Michael Jackson, a huge pop star since (the age of) 7.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor's age by the rings on her fingers.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

A modest critique of an age in which an actor is the President, in which fashion models are asked for their opinions, in which getting into a nightclub is seen as a significant human achievement.

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.