Vance Havner Quotes

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

You're never quite prepared for the inundation of stardom, or whatever you want to call it.

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.

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy it.

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of 'Beauty Queen,' people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn't really prepared for that level of attention.

I don't want to be a reality retro star.

I think people of lesser talent will become stars.

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

I'm just a person that played a game in the spotlight.

People are flying you places in business class. Everyone wants to take pictures of you and find out information about you. It's a freak-out. But the more you push boundaries, the more you get ahead.

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.

My fame? Truly I don't consider myself famous...long way to go yet. But if anyone does ask for an autograph it's a wonderful feeling.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

I think for everybody celebrity, fame, is a dream. People see it as a blessing.

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

The real stars are not good actors or actresses. They're personalities.

We never set out to be superstars.

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous.