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.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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

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

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.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can’t even get into his own Hall of Fame.

Well, 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.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

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.

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

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

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.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

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 think all documentaries leave out areas of people’s lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

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?‘

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

My 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.

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 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.

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

I’ve never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

It’s not proper for the government to intrude too thoroughly into the domain of the family. It’s inappropriate.

Big Brother is watching you.

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

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

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.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

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

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

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!

I’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.

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

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

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

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

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

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

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.

Historically, 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.

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 don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

People 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.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.