Billy Dee Williams Quotes

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.

Like every artist that comes out, you want to make a mark; you want to be a household name and you want to be someone that people are going to look back in ten years/fifteen years' time and go, 'I love this guy Olly Murs. He was brilliant back in the day; he was someone I really, really liked.'

A lost of people recognize me and maybe will ask for an autograph, but it's nothing like if Elvis would've done something like that, 'cause he's so popular, or maybe The Beatles 'cause they stirred up a lot of action.

People named their kids after me!

I want to be an icon.

You're not a star until they can spell your name in Karachi.

Trump has got to be one of the most branded people on the planet. You can't get away from him.

I'm always amazed... I took my 11-year-old to an oceanography camp, and these girls came over to me, and my son was like 'Oh here we go, Dad,' because they had been looking. They were like, 'You're the guy, aren't you?' And I said, 'Well, maybe.' They said, 'He is, he's the guy on 'Charmed!'

The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'

I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.

… a public personage.

To all the younglings I come across in 'Game of Thrones' who suddenly find themselves well known, I say the theatre is your best friend - they will remember you.

We are just continually surprised and obviously happy that the interest in Queen and Freddie keeps alive. It's a constant source of pleasure for ourselves.

Eddie Marlin was a big deal for a long time to a lot of people.

I don't consider myself an icon.

To be able to walk down the street and have people stop you, not just because they recognize you, but because you somehow personally touched them, it's amazing.

Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized everywhere. But I embraced that.

I may have a very visible job that allows more than a million viewers to invite me and my fellow anchors into their homes every morning, but that doesn't make me famous, nor does my job entitle me to any kind of special privileges.

I don't think I'm in any way an icon, to be very honest.

I have a legacy which I carry from my media career. That is why you will find that everybody will have an opinion about me.

People didn't know that I existed before 'Purpose.'

Nas really introduced the world and a lot of people to me - that was ideal as far as me first coming in.

One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people.

Don't feel bad if you never 'get famous.' Don't freak out if you have less than 300 Twitter followers.