Lewis Black Quotes

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

Being a leading man... that's like saying, 'I want to be astronaut.' That's not going to happen.

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.

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity.

I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

I will never fall prey to celebrity because I am too busy. I have other things to do than look at myself in the mirror.

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

When I was a child, I wanted to grow taller than a certain standard set by our teacher. When I expressed that desire, my teacher asked me if I thought of myself as a Chiranjeevi. Since then, I have heard a number of people liken the very name 'Chiranjeevi' to impossible achievement.

I don't get starstruck by Hollywood celebrities as I'm not into films.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

Everybody I meet is a star. In Bombay it is crazy and even TV has become so big that there are just too many stars and there is too much greed for that little space on the newspaper.

Honestly, I try to stay away from the famous chicks and L.A. girls in general.

The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture.

I don't think stardom will ever go to my head.

So many go into the business just to be famous, not because they are passionate about their craft.

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

Everyone goes To L.A. to be noticed. I went there to be completely invisible.

I think fame is really dangerous and... I don't really like to get too involved in it all.

You never think of being in that conversation for the triple crown. You don't even dream about that. It's a dumb dream. Get real.

I wasn't the star-obsessed person. I never wanted to meet stars at film sets.

I've never really had that whole 'starstruck' part to me.

I have never understood why promotion is such a big thing in Hindi films.

I always wanted to be the center of attention - you know actors, ugh.