Relative Fame Quotes

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

When I was a teenager I didn't really care about music especially with my sister being so successful, I was able to experience it through her.

The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

I just kind of kick it at my crib all day because I'm not famous at my house.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

I always knew if I had some success that I'd no longer be thought of as Dick Van Dyke's brother.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.

I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

For people, we were never Dabboo Malik's kids, we were always Anu Malik's nephews.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

I actually got more attention from one episode of 'The Sopranos' than I did from two years of 'The L Word.'

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

You have a billion people who know 'Tribbles' and only half a million who know my novel 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' which is one of my better-known books.

In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.

No matter how famous you are, there's always somebody more famous than you.

I’m famous, but I’m not famous like freaking Brad Pitt or Jennifer Aniston.

I am not so famous. I'm known in a few countries like Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and around the Alps. Some climbers in Beijing know my name, and some in America, but I am not really famous. It's very relative, my fame.