Kim Shaw Quotes

It surely gives you a high to be an international actor with quality work.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

You've gotta play the Hollywood game, and you know you're doing good the more notoriety you're getting, and that's gold. That's what every actor wants because then you know you're at another level.

I knew I was going to be famous later in life.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

It's not my ambition to be a big star.

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?