As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
~ James Carville
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
~ Bill O'reilly
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
~ Marilyn Monroe
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
~ Walt Disney
The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.
~ Kristen Stewart
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
~ Jarvis Cocker
If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.
~ Trey Parker
Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.
~ Meghan Markle
It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.
~ Willie Geist
People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.
~ Megan Fox
There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
~ Chris Rock
You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
~ Oscar De La Hoya
My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.
~ Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec
If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real.
~ Josh Homme
You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.
~ Dave Chappelle
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
~ Meg Cabot
If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
~ Michael Schumacher
When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.
~ Jason Lee
One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
~ Charles Barkley
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
~ Laura Linney
When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
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.
~ Lady Gaga
Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.
~ James Purefoy
You don't become a chef to become famous.
~ Eric Ripert
What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.
~ Winona Ryder
It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.
~ Emily Robison
If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.
~ Justin Theroux
The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.
~ Jamie Farr
Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different.
~ Patty Jenkins
A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.
~ P. J. O'rourke
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
~ Jeff Bridges
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
~ Penn Jillette
Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.'
~ Martin Freeman
You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
~ Orlando Bloom
Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.
~ Denis Leary
I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.
~ Johnny Depp
If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.
~ Ron White
You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
~ Ruth Rendell
