Raashi Khanna Quotes

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.

I know how limited and how fleeting fame is, so I just try not to get excited about it, honestly.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

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

I have to stay humble. I'm just a normal human with a job that is televised.

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star.

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

I'm not saying I'm ungrateful for fame at all. I'm just saying it's a crazy emotional experience.

Sure, every young person dreams about being famous, but nobody wants to be famous - unless they're Zsa Zsa Gabor - every single moment of every single day.

I was born into the limelight. So, my biggest achievement, which I worked hard for, is to stay normal.

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

If someone out there gets his 15 minutes of glory by using my name, so be it.