Wendy Cope Quotes

I still don't know how I became famous. It all happened so fast.

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

One minute you're nobody and the next thing you've got people following you around.

I didn't start out to become famous, so when it disappeared, I thought, well, that happens sometimes.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

It's an incredible rise to stardom. At 17 you're more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than England manager Sven Goran Eriksson.

I was famous from birth.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

You can win a talent show and be so famous that you can't walk down the street, but no-one knows you next Monday.

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me.

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

Johnny Knoxville went from struggling to pay his rent to being on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' in the course of, like, a month.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

I went from being 'Mario who?' to 'Mario baby!

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.