Cher Quotes

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Celebrity is very weird.

In a world where a lot of people's sense of self is dominated by how many people are following their Twitter feed, what does fame really do, and why is it important?

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot about.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

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

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

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

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

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

I don't want to be in magazines everyday, because I don't want people to get used to one thing.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I will never get to Lady Gaga's status. That's not something I want.