Quotes about fame from interviews with celebrities: what fame gives, what it takes and how to stay yourself.
Fame is loneliness in a crowd. I'm surrounded by people but completely alone.
A detective story about a Detroit musician who released two albums to indifference at home, unaware that on the other side of the world he had long been regarded as a legend.
On stage, I'm a different person. It's my second nature.
A portrait of racing driver Ayrton Senna assembled entirely from archival footage, with not a single new on-camera interview — a rare case of a documentary that plays like a finished drama.
I won't be a rock star. I will be a legend.
An aging Roman writer, famous for decades on the strength of a single novel, drifts through the city's nocturnal high society searching for a beauty that once felt obvious and now keeps slipping away.
The more successful you become, the more people want a piece of you.
A chronicle of Amy Winehouse's short life, built from home video and amateur footage shot long before fame — a film about how a rare talent and a fragile psyche become prey for an industry and a crowd.
The hardest thing about being an actor is convincing people that when you're acting, you're not being yourself.
A portrait of an aging actor trying to prove to himself and the world that something real once existed beneath the mask of success.
Beauty is everywhere. In synthetics, in plastics, in what others call tasteless. I just reveal it.
I am young, I am beautiful, I am fast, I am dangerous. No one can compare to me. I am a star!
I am not just a boxer. I am the most beautiful, the fastest and the smartest fighter of all time. I am the king — I am a champion.
I came, I ran, I won. It's not bragging, it's a fact.
I fear no one. I am ready to take on anyone. The whole world will know Muhammad Ali.
Fame comes and goes; what remains is the work and the people you love.
I think of myself more as a song and dance man, you know.
Fame is a responsibility to do good.
When you're winning, people watch. That's the reality of sports.
Boogie Nights is about the energy of youth and the price of success.
The ultimate reward is knowing you left a musical legacy that will inspire generations.
It's humbling to imagine someone else's life, someone else's pain. That's my drug.
Comedy is there to show us we're still part animal — so we don't take ourselves too seriously and destroy the species.
In death in general, I believe. But in the death of Dalí — absolutely not.