Famous Quotes

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.