Quotes About Fame

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

There's a certain section of the public who spot me in the street but it's never horrible. I'm not a soap villain who gets spat at.

In England, I'm known for playing villains.

I'm a villain. But hey, villains have fans, too. They might have more fans than the heroes, and I'm OK with that.

One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, 'I'm a lost boy from Neverland.' I decided to post it to Vine, and it got the biggest reaction I'd ever gotten. People wanted to hear more, and I had to explain it wasn't a song.

I had heard about Vine through Twitter, and my first video was of me freaking out on my couch. Back then I had 5 followers.

My actual biggest claim to fame is that - basically, this sounds awful and really pretentious - but my Twitter is verified. And if you're already verified on Twitter, then your Vine is automatically verified.

There's a lot of people on Vine who don't really talk, but who are very big.

I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities Vine has given me.

The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.

I've come across people referring to themselves as 'Vine famous.' Some of them started out by putting up Vines just for fun, then all of a sudden they get a bunch of fans, and a week later their Vines are totally different. They become obsessed with how their videos will be perceived.

I remember when I was a kid, if you had your name on a piece of vinyl, man, you were, like, in the halls of Valhalla; all of sudden, you were hanging out with Odin and being at the table of the gods. You were the real deal; you weren't some guy struggling in a garage somewhere.

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.

Viola Davis should be a household name. So should Angela Bassett.

There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways.

When you become a 'public person,' I find it very difficult to keep following social media. It is too harsh, too violent. I only read newspapers online.

That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.

I know the lead singer of System of a Down, and I record violin tracks with him.

What I didn't expect was 'VIP' becoming something of a cult and one of my biggest hits.