Quotes About Stardom

All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.

I think being a young female star must be really, really pretty rough.

We all want to let fans behind the scenes. We just don't want them following us around.

I got so big in the Latin market, it was a bit like being Elvis Presley. The limousines, the screaming girls - stuff I wasn't used to.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

I think when people think about California, they think about straight Hollywood, that Hollywood glamour, whole bunch of flashes, so much paparazzi.

If you've ever seen paparazzi go after a celebrity, it's really freaky.

I want to carry a show, but there are not a lot of leading parts for people who are not celebrities.

Apparently there isn't a professional in Berlin for which you can't get famous.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

Being in a career and going from highlight to highlight and playing a lot of matches you go through it and think it's normal when you play in front of 60,000 and you almost want to vomit in front of every game.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

When I heard about how big a star Puneeth Rajkumar is, I was anxious about working with him. It was only after we began shooting that I realized how chilled-out and down-to-earth he actually is. We worked hard on the set but also had fun doing so.

That's my business, show business.

'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.

Being famous is fun.

'iNkaba' has made me famous in the living rooms of the people of my country. It was almost like being famous all over again. People stop me in the street and shopping malls to take pictures.

I love being famous.

I'll never be the biggest kind of star; I'll be like Bob Duvall, respected as an actor but a lot of people can't identify the face. I don't have the personality of a big star, or the looks of a Mel Gibson or a Paul Newman, or the style of a George C. Scott.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

I don't think there has been a huge shift. Most of the films still focus on Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar, etc. The percentage of films that have someone like a Kangana Ranaut shining in it is really low.

People think I can't go shopping - that's their perception of how famous I am.

I feel since people have started noticing me and enjoying my performance, and considering the kind of love I've got in 2017-18, many feel that I have arrived, because there's a belief that I can probably carry a film on my shoulders now.