I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
Taylor SwiftWhen you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.
Kevin HartI don’t have a vast longing for the stage.
Anthony HopkinsI was an overnight sensation.
Elvis PresleyYou know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.
Clint EastwoodIf I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.
Jean-Paul SartreI was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.
George BestI don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.
Anthony HopkinsPublic opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.
Noam ChomskyThe charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
Blaise PascalI let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
Taylor SwiftI do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.
J. K. RowlingA lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘
EminemI wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
Muhammad AliI never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Marilyn MonroeI’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.
Steven WrightThere’s always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It’s long since passed that a typical person doesn’t leave footprints.
Bill GatesYou would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
David BowieThe art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.
Anthony HopkinsWhat a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
VoltairePeople don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
Dolly PartonFame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Marilyn MonroeBig Brother is watching you.
George OrwellThere are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.
Matthew McConaugheyI seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.
Nipsey HussleYou can use your real identity, or you can use phone numbers for something like WhatsApp, and pseudonyms for something like Instagram. But in any of those you’re not just sharing and consuming content, you are also building relationships with people and building an understanding of people.
Mark ZuckerbergStand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.
Kevin HartPeople think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.
Conor McGregorFame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
David BowieMy personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don’t want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn’t do any good. It really doesn’t.
Tom BradyBefore I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
EminemI’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.
Beyonce KnowlesI played Othello, but I didn’t sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn’t do me any good.
Denzel WashingtonYou want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.
Keanu ReevesIf one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
ChanakyaPassion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund BurkeI will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘
Dolly PartonI became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.
Angelina JolieI don’t want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.
Marilyn MonroeI want to show audiences I can act.
Jackie ChanIf you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.
Kevin HartFor the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who’s made one negative comment about me, I’ve probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.
Abby Lee MillerI’ve been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me.
Keanu ReevesPlaying big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters.
Dwayne JohnsonPeople want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.
Kevin HartI am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.
Anthony HopkinsSomething I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.
Angelina JolieI had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.
J. ColeNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeIf a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.
Marilyn MonroeEven those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise PascalI prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.
Angelina JolieThe martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWell, in order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times.
Lady GagaHistorically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.
Bill GatesAn actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
Marilyn MonroeI wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.
Beyonce KnowlesI’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.
Keanu Reeves‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.
Kevin Hart