I 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.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I feel like everything we do comes down to how it looks. Even no branding is branding. For example, you had no face or image to put to my music at first. That was branding.

I 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.

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.

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

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!

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

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

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

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

If 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.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

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

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

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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 came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

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

I’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.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead, other times it will be behind. But brand is simply a collective impression some have about a product.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

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 spend just as much time on how people hear my music as I do the actual music, no matter how long it takes. I’m such a visual artist as well that it always goes hand-in-hand.

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

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.