Fame Quotes

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.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

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.

Behind every successful person lies a pack of haters.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Certainly I'm not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I'm a sponge. I've always been a sponge.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

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.

I don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they're basically all of my siblings.

You know, it's infuriating. It's hard enough to be a young woman not in the public eye, and just have lots of public eyes looking at you ... let alone being famous and having a million people look at you constantly.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don't know at all can just be like, 'Oh my God - are you Billie?

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.