Success for some people, depends on becoming well-known, for others it depends on never being found out.
Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.
Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.
I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
I'm going to be as big as Sinatra.
The only time it's ever like work is when you don't like what you've done. I'm very lucky in that I haven't cultivated fame. Which, from what I've seen of my contemporaries, takes an enormous amount of time. I have a lot of respect for people that do it and they're successful at it ... Especially people that aren't such talented actors.
Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.
I'm a songwriter first...In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious...Sensitive, humbug. Everybody thinks I'm sensitive...There is a downside to having one of the biggest-selling albums ever.
I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down.
Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?
Whether it happens over 10 years, like with a lot of people, or with one hit movie that thrusts you into that world, when you become successful as an actor, you become well known. In the end game, that's just part of the business.
Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity . . . may become a star!
When I was 19 years old, I was the number one star of the world for two years. When I was 40, nobody wanted me.
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.
One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten.
I am fully committed to Hannah Montana. It's what gave me this amazing opportunity to reach out to so many people.
I've got three friends that you'd call famous, but I'm sure after 20 years, most of my friends will be famous or work in television, because that's the nature of what your work is. When I was working in an office, most of my friends worked in offices.
If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them
I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.
I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning.
I treat Hollywood as my high school.
