Quotes About Fame

Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up striding across the stage in a red leather ensemble that would have made Elvis Presley chuckle, yet is probably best known to anyone born in the 21st century as the overly chatty donkey from 'Shrek.'

I was an overnight sensation.

I don't really think reviewing music is something you're going to get famous doing overnight.

I didn't go through the routine of singing in small clubs and doing open mics and working so hard the way a lot of people do and did. It was just an overnight kind of thing.

No one's an overnight sensation unless you're Batman.

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn't happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

You can become a star overnight, guys. You can be on the street walking one day, and you're on your way to the corner diner, and you had to hitch a ride to get there. And the next day, you can be a huge star, money coming at you from right and left. And you've got to know how to handle that situation.

When you become a mega-icon overnight, there's no way to keep that intensity continually going.

My success was pretty overnight.

Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

Some people expect me to have changed overnight because of one big song.

I think people think how I got work came easy. People assume that I was an overnight sensation, because they're just now hearing about me, or that everything happened very quickly.

I don't think you are ever prepared for success with bands like Simple Minds and U2. It wasn't until your fourth or fifth album that you really got that big-league success. It doesn't happen overnight, so you get used to it.

I am not in a hurry, I don't want to become a star overnight.

You could become an overnight star in Bollywood with just single hit, but your fate would change with a single flop. That's why I do not derive satisfaction however much name I earn for myself in Bollywood.

Things that are like overnight success things don't last long, and that's not something I wanted.

Nobody just said, 'Here, be a star!' I've joked many times that I was a seven-year overnight success.

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.