Cass Elliot Quotes

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.

Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

My name is real, which probably explains why I never became a superstar... how would that look in lights?

And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

I'm not a big fan of trying to be a sex symbol or any of that stuff because I really like the music to speak for itself.

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star.

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.

I don't feel comfortable with the kind of celebrity that has come my way - and I'm not very good at it, either.

I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star.

People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

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.