Billy Bob Thornton Quotes

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

Celebrity! It's become the most disgusting word on the planet. It makes me sick to my stomach.

I'm so not a celebrity.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

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

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. That would be kind of sad.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

I've never really spent too much or put too much gravity or placed too much importance on being a pop star. It's like, OK, great, does that mean I don't have to do anything anymore except walk around and be a pop star?

There's a panic, a rush, to this 'achievement' of fame. There's also the ambivalence of fame: the love of it and the hatred of it. We sometimes hate the famous while, at the same time, straining to achieve fame oneself.

I didn't fall for a lot of that stardom stuff.

I've never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

I have no interest in being known as a celebrity; 'celebrity' is a pretty disgusting word. It's part of the brainwashing of the culture, part of the false idolatry of those that are only human, and I don't want to participate in that.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

I'm not an actress, I'm a girl who was on reality TV.