Jean Cocteau Quotes

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

With television, you can make anyone look larger than life.

My reputation precedes me now.

I have to maintain my stardom.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

The heartthrob thing came in the late 1960s, and to be honest, it was fun! But I was very aware that well-known actors are two people - who you are and who other people think you are. Life only gets tricky if you confuse the two.

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

Audiences could never relate to me as anything other than Tori Spelling.

You don't choose your public; your public chooses you.

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.