Groucho Marx Quotes

People stood on their chairs, cheering and waving. And it was all for me! Waves of love flooded the stage and washed over me. I started to cry. The sweetness of such a moment is impossible to describe. One is both lover and beloved. ... I'd found the one true, enduring romance of my life.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

I'm not good at being lionized, and when I'm in 'Grateful Dead'-type situations, that happens.

Any actor who says he does not like so many people shouting his name would be lying.

People recognise me now. I've got so much fan mail.

When I was 30, I was very popular. Kids would scream, and women would scream.

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.

The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.

I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.

Michael Jackson doesn't really belong on this planet. He's the most important figure in the history of music. He'll be remembered far longer than George Bush will. 200 years from now, people will be talking about Michael Jackson, and no one's going to mention George Bush.

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

Why, when people are starving, am I on a carpet that's red? Because I'm "important"? Because I'm "famous"? That's not how I roll.

To some characters, fame is like an intoxicating cup placed to the lips,--they do well to turn away from it who fear it will turn their heads. But to others fame is "love disguised," the love that answers to love in its widest, most exalted sense.

I'm in a class by myself, along with people like Rod Stewart.

There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.

All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.