I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

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

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

I cannot sit still.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

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?‘

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

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.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.