George Clooney Quotes

When people come up to me and ask for my autograph and everything... I find it funny that people want my autograph.

I don't know if I'm a heartthrob or if I want to be one! I heard that I get the most fan mail. It's very flattering, and lovely to be popular with the public.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

The fact that people actually want my autograph is crazy.

Everyone in show business has had the experience of the fan who is so excited at recognizing their favorite star, they say, 'Oh my gosh, you're my biggest fan!'

Being a teen idol is what I've waited for my whole life.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

I don't really understand why people are so interested in me, personally. I'm just a curator. I'm just telling people things I think are cool.

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.

You know, I don't turn down autographs. I try to sign as many autographs as I can.

There are people who want photographs and autographs when they meet me.

Giving autographs is flattering.

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

I signed my first autograph when I was 11.

People ask me for autographs now and I think to myself: 'Are you sure?'

People don't ask me for my autograph.

Before 'Twilight,' occasionally I would get the 'Hey are you that girl from that movie?' but no one knew my first and last name. The fans of the saga are amazing, and it's very flattering.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

Really, I don't see this heart-throb thing at all.

I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.