Israel Adesanya Quotes

Fame is something that is tough when it comes. It's a weird thing to take on in real life. I was a little bit afraid and, as a result, kind of turned my back on it. You should embrace it because it's going to be a part of who you are, and it's going to be a part of what this business is about.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

Fame is a beast that you can't control or be prepared for.

Being a star is not a job, and that's really important for me say.

I have the same friends I had before I turned a singer or an actor.

With regards to the fame, I wanted it, I worked for it, and when you get it, it's something you want to turn on and off, but that's part of the game.

Some people can handle fame, some can't.

There are those, I think, who are attracted to the glitz of celebrity life. I am not one of them.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your picture on a bus.' It's tricky: You're excited by the possibilities, but you don't want to get too crazy.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. That sort of blazing stardom must be difficult to cope with and maintain; my career has just bubbled along happily.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.

People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

I'm famous. That's my job.

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.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.