Muhammad Ali Quotes

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

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

And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.

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

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

The fans make the person a star.

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

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time.

Initially, the best thing about being in L.A. was the girls - they loved me. It was like being a pop star.

Yeah, I'm walking through the airport, I'm walking through the street, I'm driving in my car, people just start screaming at me - 'YEEEAAAHHH!'

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

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

The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

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

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage... You start to think that you're Tom Jones.

Hollywood has given me a great, warm hug.