Unwanted Fame Quotes

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it.

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

I'd become a bit of a joke. People would make memes, chopping my head off in a group photo and putting a monster or ET on there. I'd be in live Q&As and these things would pop up and I'd have to just sit there.

OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

I don't know how I became controversy's favourite child.

I don't particularly enjoy publicity, it seems to just follow me around.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him.

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

I was a relatively anonymous guy, and for whatever reason, I became one of the villains for the Right.

I never enjoyed being famous.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

It was more like having unwanted attention as a child - if you'd walk around, people would recognize you, and it would be in a weird, almost making-fun-type manner.

I feel slightly embarrassed by being called 'the godfather.'

First of all, I never set out to be a whistleblower. Secondly, I never expected that my story would be interesting to anybody. Third of all, you know, I was actually terrified of being named, of being identified.