Noel Fielding Quotes

People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.

Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.

Fame is very much a double-edged sword.

Most of my acting jobs have resulted in a series of mortifying revelations spread over years and years following the shoot.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,--the sweet, without the other side,--the bitter.

The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life.

Always keep your words soft and sweet. You never know when you'll have to eat them. Always remember, as you go out to seek your fortune, your fame, your fulfillment, always remember that it's not who you know in this world, it's whom.

WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

The first period of getting famous was incredibly strange to me and really fun at the beginning because you didn't realise the consequences of anything. You could say or do whatever you wanted and it just didn't matter.

There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.

Nations, like individuals, cannot become desperate gamblers with impunity. Punishment is sure to overtake them sooner or later.

Sweet were the days when I was all unknown, But when my name was lifted up, the storm Brake on the mountain and I cared not for it. Right well know I that fame is half disfame.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will forever be destroyed, my punishment earned, self-inflicted like this gunshot wound, and the world will finally know that I was the greatest feather man of them all.

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

What is forgotten, however, is that many times the Good we create leads to Evil that will destroy us.

Some days you go bear hunting and you get eaten. Some days you come home with a nice rug to roll around on, and bear steaks. What they don't tell you as a kid is that sometimes you get the rug and steaks, but you also get some nice scars to go with them. As a child you don't understand that you can win, but that's it's not always worth the price. Once you understand and accept that possibility you become a real grown up, and the world becomes a much more serious place. Not less fun, but once you realize what can go wrong, it's a lot scarier to go hunting "bears".

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.

Every high has an equal, measurable low.

You can get famous for doing something stupid and empty, but you do something stupid and empty and you're already famous, you lose your career.