Gary Barlow Quotes

I've been extremely lucky to be a part of these really great shows that have gotten so much attention.

It's a pleasure. We are lucky guys to be there in front of the millions and millions watching us.

I mean, I've been given a terrific life by the audiences who stuck with me all over the world.

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky.

I had such extraordinary breaks from the moment I entered the theater.

I regard myself as being enormously lucky to have been accepted by the British public in so many areas.

He was just Dad. But it's hard to deny who he was when you're brought out on stage, and you're standing beside this great man singing at the end of a show, and the crowd loves him.

I consider myself extremely fortunate, and I am more happy for all the attention that I constantly garner.

I have a luxury of people coming to see me whether I play for the crowd or not. I don't take that lightly.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

Hollywood has always been good to me. I've never blamed Hollywood for my problems.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

I am the luckiest actress on the planet.

I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.'