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.
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.
I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don’t. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone’s idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
I can’t see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
There are people who appear in the magazines and I don’t know who they are. I’ve never seen anything they’ve done and their careers are over already. They’re famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.
The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it’s just an illusion.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer… I don’t know why that started… The way I sing, probably.
The world’s most famous and popular language is music.
It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey, I wrote a song.’
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
I don’t want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don’t want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.
I don’t want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.
Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
