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Quotes by celebrities
"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich."
"I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that it's not the answer."
"You can't get un-famous. You can get infamous, but you can't get un-famous."
"I asked to be successful. I never asked to be famous."
"It's like jumping into a pool full of sharks."
— Simon Pegg, about fame
"Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door."
"Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing."
"There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type."
"Fame, in the end, is getting off your parking fine because the attendant wants your photograph, and fame is being interrupted when you're eating by a fifty-year-old American lady with a ponytail. The four of us are known to almost everybody in the world, but we don't feel that famous."
Quotes from fiction (music)
Somewhere in some secluded castle
Poor Tom Cruise sits staring at the wall
And the outside world is always such a hassle
Sometimes he won't go out, at all
There are millions who know his name, everybody loves him
Why is it, that he feels so alone?
Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise Crazy
Just be glad it's him, not you
If you had Tom Cruise's troubles
You might be Tom Cruise Crazy too
You'd flash your big white shiny smile; you'd buy expensive shoes
But you'd be the only man on Earth
Who couldn't enjoy Tom Cruise!
Poor Tom Cruise sits staring at the wall
And the outside world is always such a hassle
Sometimes he won't go out, at all
There are millions who know his name, everybody loves him
Why is it, that he feels so alone?
Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise Crazy
Just be glad it's him, not you
If you had Tom Cruise's troubles
You might be Tom Cruise Crazy too
You'd flash your big white shiny smile; you'd buy expensive shoes
But you'd be the only man on Earth
Who couldn't enjoy Tom Cruise!
— Jonathan Coulton, "Tom Cruise Crazy"
And now the tabloids use your face
To document your fall from grace
And they tell you that that's just the way it goes...
Just the way it goes...
To document your fall from grace
And they tell you that that's just the way it goes...
Just the way it goes...
— Just Jack, "Starz in their eyes"
Living on a lighted stage
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact.
Approaches the unreal
For those who think and feel
In touch with some reality
Beyond the gilded cage
Cast in this unlikely role
Ill-equipped to act
With insufficient tact
One must put up barriers
To keep oneself intact.
— Rush, "Limelight"
All eyes on me, I'm the hot, hot issue, issue
A-all I hear is just "I, I miss you, miss you"
Just another day, day
I don't want that blah blah blah
But I'm okay, I'm okay
I got used to it
A-all I hear is just "I, I miss you, miss you"
Just another day, day
I don't want that blah blah blah
But I'm okay, I'm okay
I got used to it
— Momoland, "Thumbs Up" (English version)
Facing twenty thousand of your friends
How can anyone feel so lonely?
How can anyone feel so lonely?
— ABBA, "Super Trouper"
So goodbye, yellow brick road,
Where the dogs of society howl.
You can't plant me in your penthouse,
I'm going back to my plough.
Back to the howling old owl in the woods,
Hunting the horny back toad.
Oh, I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road.
— Elton John, "Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road"
And they say, "She's so lucky, she's a star"
But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking
"If there's nothing missing in my life
Then why do these tears come at night?"
But she cry, cry, cries in her lonely heart, thinking
"If there's nothing missing in my life
Then why do these tears come at night?"
— tiLLie, "luckie"
Quotes from fiction (other)
"Pandemonium ensued when pop star Callie was spotted at the airport by fans after wrapping up filming for her new upcoming TV drama in New Sardine. She smiled through it all, but it's clear to this reporter that the pressure of fame is getting to her."
— Sunken Scroll 21, Splatoon 2
"You're just gonna get older, and harder, and more alone. And you're gonna do everything you can to fill that hole with friends, and your career, and meaningless sex, but the hole doesn't get filled. And one day, you're gonna look around, and you're gonna realize that everybody loves you! But nobody likes you. And that is the loneliest feeling in the world."
— BoJack, BoJack Horseman
"What of fame?
Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name
And never again, are you alone.."
Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name
And never again, are you alone.."
— Tupac Shakur, "What of Fame?" (poem)
"Oh NOW you love me. NOW you love Macho Man. Well it's too late... MAYBE NOT!"
— Super Macho Man, Punch-Out!! Wii
"Truth be told, Kevin. Given the choice, I’d rather have my secret identity back."
— Ben, upon being accused of letting his fame go to his head, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Mary Jane: Peter, you're like a rock star.
Peter Parker: Yeah, just like a rock star. Except for the money, fame and everything else good that comes with that kinda thing.
Callie: But why would you want to leave all that fame, Mr. Presley? All that money?
Elvis Presley: I don't know. 'Cause they got old. The woman I loved - Priscilla - she was gone. The rest of the women... were just women. I mean the music wasn't even mine anymore. I wasn't even me anymore. Just this thing they made up. And my friends... well they were sucking me dry.
Elvis Presley: I don't know. 'Cause they got old. The woman I loved - Priscilla - she was gone. The rest of the women... were just women. I mean the music wasn't even mine anymore. I wasn't even me anymore. Just this thing they made up. And my friends... well they were sucking me dry.
"Being popular isn't so great. Or so I've read in books."
— Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Ford: If you ever become a paranormal researcher like me, don't advertise yourself as much as I did. Nothing good comes of it.
Dipper: I hear you. That's why I'm gonna move to a desert island when I retire.
Ford: Good plan, good plan.
Dipper: I hear you. That's why I'm gonna move to a desert island when I retire.
Ford: Good plan, good plan.
— Halloween Unspectacular: Blue Alert, "Before Breakfast"
"...in this family, being a good person and a loyal friend is more important than being famous. Fame is fleeting. It's hollow. It means nothing at all without a virtuous heart."
— Robert Kardashian, American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson
"You know the fame isn't real."
— Anna, Notting Hill
Isn't that what fame is, anyway? Being slaves to little people? My slave name was the Crapper. My slave job is to crap and make millions of little people happy.
— Gerald Faust, Reality Boy
"I thought being famous was gonna be fun. I was loved for a minute, then I was hated. Then I was just a punchline. It was like being abused all over again, only this time, it was by you. All of you. You're all my attackers, too."
