Jack Gleeson Quotes

He [Marquis de Lafayette] has a canine appetite for popularity and fame.

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

People like to gossip about people who are successful.

For me, Michael Jackson was a star. Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are stars. They are the ones who own and carry stardom.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

I get recognized often, but they don't treat me like a god. It would be nice if they did, I think.

Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.