“You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.”
Fame looks different from the inside than the outside. These quotes come from and about well-known figures, exploring celebrity, recognition, legacy, and the question of whether being remembered is really all it is cracked up to be.
“As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.”
“You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.”
“If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.”
“Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'”
“To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.”
“I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.”
“People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.”
“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.”
“It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.”
“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
“A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.”
“Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.”
“A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.”
“What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”
“Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'”
“Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.”