Arthur Smith Quotes

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

I'm famous. That's my job.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

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.

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot.

The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person.

Luckily, the public sees me as a character actor.

Celebrity culture is... it's not something that I'm attracted to. I guess I don't think of myself in that way, but potentially other people do. I feel I'm at the far periphery of that.