Ben Stiller Quotes

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

To be famous and broke is hard.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

Mother set impossibly high standards for us, creating tremendous pressures and undermining our ability to accomplish whatever modest aims we may have set for ourselves.

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father.

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

It's tough for a child to deal with expectations that people have if they have a successful parent. A child often fails to cope with the same and constantly tries to find out possible ways to excel - just to live up to the name.

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.