Stardom Challenges Quotes

To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.

I'm the kind of person who likes to hang out and observe what's going on in the streets, or in certain places. I used to do that a lot. But having to become an international superstar, I can't do that comfortably! But it's all positive, you know.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

When I was on 'Complete Savages,' the cast sometimes found themselves running from a mob of girls. There is nothing quite like that.

Stardom is just an uneasy seat on top of a tricky toboggan. Being a star is merely perching at the head of the downgrade. A competent featured player can last a lifetime. A star, a year or two. There's all that agony of finding suitable stories, keeping in character, maintaining illusion.

If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

I actually ran into Justin Bieber when nobody knew him at the Kids' Choice Awards. He came up to me like, 'Mr. Crews, how you doing? I'm produced by Usher and I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Justin Bieber,' and I just knew he was a good, nice kid. Next year, people are screaming and attacking him!

It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence and integrity. It's really challenging.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

I don't wish stardom on anyone. When I hear people say, 'this guy's a star,' I always say, 'good luck.'

Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre.

Child stardom is a really hard thing. It can really lead to bad things, and I think a lot of people have gone through that.

Being in front of the cameras is not my favorite thing to do. But it's a good problem to have.

Michael was the first person to show me what it meant to be a star... but you cannot be that star and not accept all the things that came with it.