Fame Struggle Quotes

I really had no aspirations for becoming a DJ, and now I find myself having to campaign to be in the DJ Top 100.

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came out, I keep getting all these parts, and my career's taken off. I want a quiet life. I'm going back into the closet. But I can't get back into the closet, because it's absolutely jam-packed full of other actors.

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

Being famous is uncomfortable because I grew up very simply. Everything revolved around friends, family, church and sports.

You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.

It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.

Paintin they own pictures then they crop me in But I will remain where the top begins

I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

To be honest, unless you rocket straight to stardom as a gorgeous young vampire, you can spend a lot of time working behind a bar.

You become world famous, and you sit with kings and queens, and then your first job is just a job. You can't go back to living the way you did before because you've been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.

I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.

I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You're not supposed to chuck me on a stage with bells and whistles. There was a struggle ahead after that happened, and perhaps I was trying to write songs to compete in that arena.

It's a very terrible thing to be Maria Callas, because it's a question of trying to understand something you can never really understand.

You want attention, you want to grab some of that airspace that exists out there in a world that's very difficult to get it because it's so competitive and to get it for more than a few seconds. Any attention is good and that can be what we would normally consider as bad attention so I wanted to make you aware of that dynamic.

When you get quick fame and success and exposure, it makes you feel dizzy, and I didn't want to lose my balance 'cause that's something I've been struggling with for so many years. I'm not fond of the idea of making it in Hollywood. That's not my aim; otherwise, I would have settled down in Los Angeles.

It's hard to feel like a teen idol.

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

But my problem was that I did an hour for Comedy Central and nobody seemed to care.

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in '80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you're either still there, or you're struggling to get back to where you were.