Boman Irani Quotes

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

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've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

All the Kardashians care about is the media, money, and being on camera.

I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

It's so ironic - when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.

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

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

One thing which I know about this world of glamour is that it is better to have people talking about you than not being talked about at all.

I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.