Being Famous Quotes

It's important for celebrities, environmentalists and world leaders to continue to increase education and eco-awareness through the forums provided to them naturally by virtue of being famous. Take inspiration from these words of wisdom from a Nazi-era teenager and concentration camp victim: "how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

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.

Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

I can never really enjoy being famous.

I don't look at myself as being famous. I look at myself as an athlete. If the money is there, I'd be happy, but I have to be happy within myself first.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

Had Rahul Dravid been born in any country other than India, he would have been much more famous than Sachin Tendulkar.

I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Being famous is just a job.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it...Music is spiritual. The music business is not. Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous, famous for being infamous, famous for having once been famous and, thanks largely to the Internet, famous for not being famous at all.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.