Adam Clayton Quotes

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

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.

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.

I was an unknown face before I joined the WWE.

I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.

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

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.

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.

Suddenly, I'm in movies that people are excited about, and that is a nice change.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

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

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success.

Hollywood has treated me well.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

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.

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

I'm famous. That's my job.