I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.
No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.
I grew up with Forrest J. Ackerman's 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' along with a plethora of movie tomes and wanted to write about film with a sense of personality, passion, and humor.
I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
Everyone in New York City thinks they are famous without being famous.
I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.
Rich and famous and doing good," mused Schlichtmann. "Rich isn't so difficult. Famous isn't so difficult. Rich and famous together aren't so difficult. Rich, famous, and doing good--now, that's very difficult.
A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.
If your first idea could not get famous say the second idea in order to train a person to follow your first Idea.
It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance.
It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.
I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.
I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away.
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
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.
