Rakim Quotes

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

My mom did more press than me for 'Faces.'

I'm not a publicity hound. I don't care about being on the cover of 'GQ' or 'Vanity Fair.'

It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

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.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

If something good happens to you, and no one knows it, did it really happen? Moreover, if you don't publicize your accomplishments and good fortune, are you essentially saying you don't care about them?

Somebody did an article in one of the newspapers saying that at that time I had the most visibility of any actor around. Kind of nice, you know, when that thing was happening.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

Every single day, I get asked by people to do 'the face,' so I'm bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of films.

I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

I don't maybe follow the normal star profile, and it's not something that I particularly want to embrace in terms of the publicity thing and wanting to be famous and known.