Barry Zito Quotes

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

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.

The day I say I'm famous is the day I sound like a fanny.

I don't think in terms of being a superstar.

I can't come to terms with stardom or see myself as a star.

I just want to be rich and famous.

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

I'm very privileged to be the celebrity I am.

I don't see myself as a famous person.

I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

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

I don't consider myself a star.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.