Fame Quotes

There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I feel like I'm being watched. Always. Like, I want to tan topless somewhere, and I know I probably could never do that. Even if I'm upstairs in my bedroom, and the curtains are pulled, I feel like a paparazzo's outside on a boat somewhere, or somebody's peeping.

At 13 years old, you know you're a big star. OK, fine, but I want to go and watch Huckleberry Hound.

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

I don't know what everybody else was fantasizing about but what I was fantasizing about was a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard. [...] After a while you learn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

People don't value their obscurity. They don't know what it's like to have it taken away.

I learned from Jimi Hendrix. They all wanted him to do the tricks, and at the end of his career, he just wanted to play. I lived longer than he did, and I can see how those pressures can really play with your head.

A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber.

The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show in Germany, four girls went into a dumpster so they could sneak into the building. They climbed in and hid. When the guys working on the truck started getting the garbage they found them straight away. It was crazy.

The image is one thing, and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.

My fans want my shirt. They can have my shirt. They put it on my back.

I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.