Fame Pursuit Quotes

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

I'm trying to be a working actor. I'm not in pursuit of fame. I'm not trying to be in the kinds of films that make you famous like that.

The only thing I think of is the next hit record.

Nothing demonstrates a celebrity's basic drive for attention more powerfully than a willingness to check one's dignity at the door, week after week, in front of millions of viewers.

I never became a road comic.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

Before, I was more concerned with getting on the radio, like many young artists.

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

I'm trying to make the Hall of Fame.

The amount of work you need to do to become a very successful celebrity is something I'm not prepared to do.

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.

Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

I think you have to want to be really famous. It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage.

To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.

When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.