Roseanne Barr Quotes

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer.

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Everybody wants pictures. They feel inspired. It's very cool.

In America, there's a just-add-water reality TV world in which people expect to get their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.

I think the word 'celebrity' is stupid.

Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get something to be famous.

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

People recognise me from all over the country, which we didn't expect.

I never thought, as a kid, that I'd have an action figure, much less an action figure sold in a two-pack with Jake The Snake.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

I don't like to be famous.

It's very strange. I can't go anywhere without somebody stopping me, which is so cool that I get to connect to people that I never might've ever spoken to, or they have an impetus to speak to me. It's created a career that I wasn't sure if I'd ever really have.

I still don't know how I became famous. It all happened so fast.

It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous.

I think it's really strange for somebody that's probably never been in the public eye. All of a sudden I was 'big time' - boom, it all just happened.

I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time.

We as humans, we're not solitary people, we're like dogs, we like to live in packs and know about one another. And, if anything, fame is people trying to attain community on a mass scale, because when you become famous wherever you go people know about what you've done and what you're about to do.

People ask me for autographs now and I think to myself: 'Are you sure?'

I do not understand the pleasure of being so famous. I just don't get it. I love acting and doing the work. That's what it's all about for me.