Jarvis Cocker Quotes

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially.

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.

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

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I always wanted to be a star.

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

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.

There's so much made of the exceptional and the celebrity, the famous, and the wannabees.

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.

I've always wanted to be a star.

In Hollywood, all of your dreams can come true.

Stardom is a crazy thought. If that's what my path is, then that's where I'm excited to be headed towards.

I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.

I just want to be rich and famous.

As a young girl, I used to dream of giving an interview. You dream of stardom as a kid. People think they don't want to be stars. Everyone wants to be a star! That's the truth. Even grownups; they pretend they don't want to be one and don't care. But everyone wants to.

I knew I was going to be famous later in life.

I loved being a rock and roll star, but it wasn't what I wanted in life.

In Hollywood, they say good news finds you.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

You'd see those movie stars on the screen, and say, 'I want to be that guy.'

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.