Mary Pierce Quotes

If you're at the top, people worship you wherever you go. But when you're dying down, it's difficult to sell tickets!

I want to show people that I can be a household name.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

I think I've been wishing for celebrity for so long that I've got used to being someone who's petitioning the establishment for acceptance... my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don't really know how to react now that petition has been granted.

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.

I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

When people are running up to me in the grocery store screaming, 'Oh my God! Oh my God!' that's when I know I'm swervin'. As long as people are recognizing you and you matter to them, then you're doing something right.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

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.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

There are so many people in the world and not everybody knows who I am, some people do, but I just don't think a lot of people know who I am.

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

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.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.