Quotes About Fame

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

to learn. For one thing, who goes to a play on the Fourth of July? People are barbecuing and watching fireworks. Also, I was a total unknown. No one had heard of Tyler Perry, no one knew about my play. Why would they come?

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

I don't feel famous.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

By the way, the representatives of power invariably come to terms with those who live within the truth by persistently ascribing utilitarian motivations to them – a lust for power or fame or wealth – and thus they try, at least, to implicate them in their own world, the world of general demoralization.)

I'm the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.

Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.

One's name should always arrive slightly ahead of one's person,

Popularity It is glory's small change.

If I had had more of a strategic attitude towards how to reveal my sexuality, and if I'd even played with it a little more, I could have sold a lot more albums and been a lot more famous.