The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
If I hadn’t had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can’t figure it out.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
A lot of people didn’t know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for being famous. I was the one who sat next to Charles Nelson Reilly and said funny things.
People think being famous is fun. It’s not. Even a little bit of fame. It’s bizarre. It’s weird.
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.
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
I’m quite happy being famous for what I do but I’m not happy about being famous for the sake of being famous.
Being famous hasn’t changed my perception of myself – I’ve just grown up.
You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I’m glad it’s over.
If you’re famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don’t.
People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you’re in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
I love being famous. It’s almost like being white.
I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it’s being famous for being brilliant at something.
I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.
I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I’ve been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner.
If you’re famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don’t.
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.
If you’re famous for being famous, that’s usually a four-year career.
We have this obsession with celebrity, where people can go on shows and makes millions of pounds from being completely talentless – Jade Goody, all that type of people – and it really gets to me. I’m not interested, I’m a musician. It’s not about being famous and being a celeb.
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
When our daughter was born, a light went on for me – there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn’t the dream I was sold on. I’d had enough of it.
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
I’m more interested in being good than being famous.
I always loved working as an actress, but I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
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’ve never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That’s what’s important to me.
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It’s not really any very heady fame.
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It’s to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That’s how I enjoyed fame in ’74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.
I don’t want to be famous for being famous.
I always dreamt of being famous, and dreams do come true.
I put out my first song with no intentions of being famous.
I have an innate fear of fame. I’ve never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.
I turned down many chances to be on TV before ‘Pop Idol’ because I really wasn’t interested in being famous. I didn’t need it and didn’t want it.
I’ve never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don’t give a damn. And everyone’s very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can’t actually get my head round it.
It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.
Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.
I’m not just a rapper; I’m an intelligent young man. But being able to give my mother everything she’s ever wanted, I could care less about being famous or the money; that’s my dream. That’s all that matters to me.
I don’t care about being famous.
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.
I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
I don’t dislike being famous, but there have been moments when you think: ‘Is this really worth it?’ Sometimes you go through that stage where you’re almost like selling your soul. People want all from you, absolutely everything. They want it from you. And everyone’s got an opinion about you.
I never pursued being ‘famous.’
There is this power that comes with being famous.
Being famous is part of my job.
There’s nothing to be said for being famous. It’s a pain. You can’t be rude to people – it’s inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it’s not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.
I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn’t think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.
To put it simply – you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don’t buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
For me, it’s never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard… If I’m in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons – for my music.
I’ve always been passionate about acting. I haven’t been passionate about being famous.
Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.
Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul.
It wasn’t easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with ‘being famous,’ and I’m just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn’t get an easy ride at the beginning.
Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn’t leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, ‘Oh, are you Mac Miller?’ and then the rest of the night I couldn’t be myself.
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