Denis Shapovalov Quotes

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

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

I never pursued being 'famous.'

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

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.

Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

I have always been reasonably anonymous, but I suppose that has gone with the success of 'Homeland.' I feel a lot more visible, which is good and bad. Good because I am getting recognition, but I am slightly apprehensive because I always enjoyed my anonymity.

If I played in New York, they'd name a candy bar after me.

The trouble started when I won the world amateur title in 1980, aged 18. People began talking about me as the next star of the game. But I also started to get recognised more and I wasn't prepared for it.

As long as I've been doing Ghost, at least, I've been very keen on maintaining not necessarily an anonymity but a low profile. But on the other hand, I spent 25 years not doing Ghost, where, 20 of those years, I wanted to be nothing but a famous rock musician.

Fame didn't change me.

Fame is weird.

When people say I've become a star, it takes time to sink in.

I did get recognised a few times in Letterkenny which is still very strange to me.

I realize I lack popular recognition.

I'm like a famous person to some people, not to everybody. I want to be big.

Years ago, I was a nobody. Now, I am a face recognized almost across the world.

You don't want to lose the nostalgia of being a superstar.