fame drawbacks Quotes

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

When you get famous, you become a target for things, like lawsuits. People will take advantage of your fame.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

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 have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

There are drawbacks in being famous too, but you can live with those. They're not life-threatening. If the paparazzi are outside your restaurant or your house - and actors make such a big thing of it and scurry into cars and drape things - you think they're going to be crucified or something. It's not a big deal. You can get used to that. It's not so terrible.

Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

Television opens up some bloody great doors. That's the plus. The minus is the attention it brings.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

The fame is the downside. I can't think of many positive things about it - except that when I go to parties, I don't have to stand there like a lemon.

Would I want Johnny Depp's career? Sure! But do I want all the trappings and all the stuff that comes with that? I don't know. It's a pretty serious trade off. Can you prevent it? Probably not.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

Sure, every young person dreams about being famous, but nobody wants to be famous - unless they're Zsa Zsa Gabor - every single moment of every single day.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.