I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
6th Baron Byron
Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
From a nobody, I seem to have become a celebrity of sorts overnight. I am dumbstruck and overwhelmed.
It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.
I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.
It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
So many people have to struggle for years, very few bands get success with their first record, but I was instantly successful and famous on a very large scale, which was scary.
I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
It was very difficult to go from relative anonymity to such huge success in such a short space of time.
I literally was famous before I knew my own name.
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
