Jerry Jeff Walker Quotes

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

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.

You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.

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

A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.

I don't want to be a rock star. I had my 15 minutes of fame.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

One U.S. hit single and a hit T Shirt in 1985 does not a celebrity make.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

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.

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

If you're famous for being famous, that's usually a four-year career.

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

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

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.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet 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.