Thomas Carlyle Quotes

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

There should be a talent that goes along with being famous.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

I just want to be written about as a normal artist.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

For the most part, people don't know who I am.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

But I quite like that the public has a very short attention span. If I haven't been on telly for a little bit, I can sense it. People don't take as much notice of you, it's really quite palpable.

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

This stupid celebrity thing is just a consequence of being good at what you do. I mean, no one would photograph David Beckham if he wasn't the best attacking midfielder in the country - much as I hate Man. U!

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become.