Tim Minchin Quotes

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

I used to hate being recognised.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.

Everybody knows who I am.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

I used to think I was a big star. And I used to think that the TV industry, Balaji, and my show will not survive without me. But then I realised that you cannot be bigger than your work.

In the beginning of my career, everybody knew it, it was no secret that I loved the spotlight. I basked in it. And then all of a sudden, I turned into this person who was reclusive, or hiding.

I was really uncomfortable with fame. I mean, it's lovely and flattering, and you enjoy all the razzmatazz and being flown around, but when people suddenly call you a star, you think, 'I'm not a star, I'm just playing a star role.'

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

You don't want to lose the nostalgia of being a superstar.

I'm a big deal That's why I get more head than a pigtail

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

If I had been Terry Pratchett the farmer, or Terry Pratchett the dentist, nobody would have paid any attention if I had announced I had Alzheimer's. But there is something fascinating about an author losing the power over words.