Bono Quotes

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.

The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

I have to say, my celebrity is not a big factor in my life. Once in a while someone takes my picture. But I'm not exactly one of the four girls everyone's chasing at the moment.

Look, at the same time that I don't want to be a celebrity, I understand that when you make movies you put yourself out in the public eye. I'd be a baby and a fool to be like, 'Why are there cameras taking pictures of me?' when I'm on a billboard for a movie. I think that's a very absurd concept.

I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

Celebrity is very weird.

I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

I don't really consider myself a celebrity.

I want to be an actor - I don't want to be a celebrity. They are two different things, and people have forgotten that they are different.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I'm so not a celebrity.

We don't play the celebrity business in our family.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.

I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

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.