There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting. - George Clooney
The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear. - Robert DeNiro
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else. - Robert DeNiro
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. - Luciano Pavarotti
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. - Anthony Hopkins
Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything. - Ronnie Coleman
You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.
You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do. - Carrie Fischer
In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day. - Carrie Fischer
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain. - Carrie Fischer
I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it. - George Clooney
Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful. - George Clooney
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this. - Bruce Willis
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke. - Mike Tyson
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. - J.K. Rowling
