I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
There's nothing wrong with fame, but to seek out the spotlight just to be on TV for the sake of being on TV, and to put your children on there, I think, is especially disgusting.
People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.
I didn't want to become like so many of the young people I've worked with who have money, fame, and success but don't know who they are as people.
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.
I'm a normal working actor - just the way I want it. I have never been the one to want the fame of everything. The thing for me is to inspire people and do something I love.
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...
I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
Involvement with the eight worldly dharmas keeps beings imprisoned in the realms of samsara and renders them susceptible to the hosts of emotions. The eight worldly dharmas are: praise and blame, gain and loss, fame and disgrace, happiness and suffer...
In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted
A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.
