Darci Lynne Farmer Quotes

Middle school was my most awkward stage. I switched schools after the sixth grade after having gone to the same school for six years with the same group of 40 kids. It was a shock. I reinvented myself. I experimented with different styles, different groups of friends, and different types of music and not knowing how to be cool.

People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them. It's not easy being known as 'the kid from the TV show.' Not in school it's not.

I find it not hard to make friends, but it's definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I'm in 'Hunger Games'... My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.

It's refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.

Every place I go, Im recognied, and its pretty hard to just sit by yourself.

At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that.

Why is my autograph so little in demand, except on checks?

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

I used to have a lot of envy for those musicians who have been universally loved.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

I'm certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking.

Where you get people who want to take a picture of you or take a picture of them with you.

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.

Glory and fame mean twelve thousand francs' worth of paid articles in the newspapers and five thousand crowns' worth of dinners.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

It's a crazy feeling when people know who you are and respect your game. It's much appreciated.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.

The great are not famous, and the famous are not great

Television is the quickest form of recognition in the world.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.