Fame Quotes
The way people look at me these days - that's the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who've attained a certain position are human.
I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.
I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers.
I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.
This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.
Pay no mind to those who talk behind your back, it simply means that you are two steps ahead.
When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
Look at the prohibitive taxes for those who are really successful. The tax raids, the complicated laws and bylaws, the hassles - they all make popularity a punishable offence.
I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.
People at rehab were stealing my hats and pens and notebooks and asking for autographs. I couldn't concentrate on my problem.
I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly.
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