Quotes About Fame

Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I'm being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.

Where's Eminem, when is Em coming out, Em this, Em that, 50 this, 50 that... What about Obie?

People always ask how fame has hit me, and rarely do I feel it emotionally.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

I've never encountered any star ego.

I mean, autographs are so funny. I don't think it's good to encourage that sort of thing. Why do people want to have an autograph? What does it do for you?

Michael encouraged me to do it, but I'm not ambitious to be a star.

Everybody can adore you because you're on television, but at the end of the day, when you're no longer on TV, who's still there? It's family.

My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool.

The endorsement game has been very good to me.

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

Karen Carpenter

I'm sure that Elvis was happy for me. I think he was the kind of guy that enjoyed other people's success, especially if he had something to do with it.

I'm actually enjoying attention. Who wouldn't?

Alabama is somebody that I have always loved, but I think what is so cool about them - it's amazing, actually - is that even people who aren't enormous fans, you know their music. You know of them; you know what they've done in the music world. I think that really says something about them.

I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'

When you're the son of someone who is very famous and you enter the same business, you got to work three times as hard as anyone.

There's a difference between a celebrity and an entertainer. One has talent.

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

It's true that a song or an entertainer isn't really a hit unless he's a hit in America as well as Europe.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

I've never dreamt of being on TV; I had never tried to be in the entertainment business at all.