Tucker Max Quotes

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

All I wanted to do was to become famous, but then I found out that it was nothing special.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.

I'd got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.

My literary success meant nothing to me.

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

Show business got really tainted for me.

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?'

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.

They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

This whole 'X Factor' thing with people assuming I'm going to be a one-hit wonder - that won't happen with me.

I used to say that winning the Oscar means being back at the Beverly Hills Hotel at 1 A.M. feeling empty. It's the industry voting. It doesn't come from God. It doesn't change your life, really.

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.

I am just a normal guy, and suddenly I am really, really famous. It's definitely got its perks; I never have to wait in line at a restaurant.

Fame is a problem of perspective.

I've been recognised in garages. I'll be paying for my petrol, and I'll see this guy looking at me, thinking, 'Is it him?' Then he'll be looking at my car: 'No, he couldn't be driving that car.' I've actually had two people say to me:,'Hello Dominic, I thought you might have a better car than that, mate!'