Fame Expectations Quotes

Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".

I am not a star. My face is not the kind that 50,000 people will faint just looking at it.

Look, I'm not a blockbuster star.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.

I never got into this business thinking I'd be like a movie star.

I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.

I've got no aspirations to become an A-list celebrity.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

Could you ever call me a 'leading man?' Not really. It's not that I don't want leading man roles, but there's only so many, and they want Tom Hanks, not me.

Being famous is part of my job.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

It's not like people are going to be reading about us every day in the magazines.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

A lot of people think they can become world stars overnight.

Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.

I want to be a diva... like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around.

I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.

I like to hoop but I don't want to be remembered for one thing, like 'oh he just plays basketball.'

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

Everybody says I can't act. They said the same thing about Elizabeth Taylor. And they were wrong. She was great in A Place in the Sun. I'll never get the right part, anything I really want. My looks are against me. They're too specific.

Someone was like, 'If you wanna be a celebrity, know that every girl you talk to is going to be your girlfriend.' And I was like, 'Fine. I accept that for getting to do what I love for the rest of my life.'