Shane Filan Quotes

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

Y'all should be happy for me. It's funny, compared to my peers, my catalog isn't even that big, but I'm still getting a lot of notoriety because my songs do really well. I'm working hard and minding my own business and trying to do something I'm super passionate about.

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

I absolutely love Nicole Scherzinger. She's worked really hard to get to where she is and really knows her stuff.

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.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

Being famous for fame's sake wasn't the goal when I co-founded the Go-Go's. I just wanted to sing and have a laugh.

Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.

Starting out with music, I was very successful, and me getting into film, I definitely look forward to giving it my all. What you put in is what you get out.

If you train, you work hard, you're actually 110-percent dedicated, you're doing it for all the right reasons, you're probably gonna end up on the top. You know the cream always rises to the top.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

I'm tryna be the biggest artist I could be.

I've been blessed with a lot of talent, and if I just continue to work hard, then I think my name will be up there with some of the best.

I had no sense of 'Gotta work hard to be famous.' Never have done, and still don't.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

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.

Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

I discovered that I act because I really love to act. I don't act because maybe it will get me a magazine cover or that I can get on a talk show.

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.