Josephine Baker Quotes

And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.

I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.

I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.

Having a biopic made is very flattering.

Being the first black Nobel laureate, and the first African, the African world considered me personal property. I lost the remaining shreds of my anonymity, even to walk a few yards in London, Paris or Frankfurt without being stopped.

Till this day, people stop me in the supermarket, and they're like, 'Oh, we're so proud of you!'

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

People recognize me on the street for all kinds of different things that I've done. 'That Thing You Do' remains to be my favorite film in which I played my favorite character. That role is the one that I'm most recognized for.

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.

I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.

I know that everyone wants to know about 'Downton Abbey,' but the truth is that it was only a few days out of my life. Still, you play a distinctive part on a hit series, and everyone suddenly knows who you are. Isn't it crazy how this business works?

When I go to Atlanta, I'm famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they're watching every show, and if you're black, you famous.

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.

I have been famous for a long time.

I don't walk around the street thinking, 'I'm Michael Madsen,' but then again, I am that guy, and sometimes people do take notice of me. Sometimes it's really not comfortable.

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

At home, I'm just Amy, but in India, I get mobbed.

Sometimes fame overshadows an artist's music, and we forget just how incredibly talented these people truly are.

I can't step outside my house now - everybody knows my face.

When people say I've become a star, it takes time to sink in.

I did get recognised a few times in Letterkenny which is still very strange to me.

Years ago, I was a nobody. Now, I am a face recognized almost across the world.

I'm still always surprised when someone recognizes me.

I'd gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.