I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.
Oh, it's soo hard being famous! I can't date anybody because everybody just wants my hot body and my Twilight millions!
My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
We as Americans are completely obsessed and wrapped up in a lot of the wrong values - looking good, having cash in the bank, being perceived as rich, famous and successful or just being famous... It's the most superficial part of the American dream and who would know better than me? The only thing that's going to bring you happiness is love and how you treat your fellow man and having compassion for one another.
If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.
To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots of integrity, whereas being famous doesn't really take any integrity. But I think you have to admit that you want to be famous, otherwise you can't be an artist. Art and fame together are like a desire to live forever.
For me, it's never been about being famous. I just want to be a successful singer. I wanna work hard If I'm in the papers, grace, but I want to be there for the right reasons - for my music.
I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
I never pursued being 'famous.'
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
Being famous hasn't made my life any easier. Every minute I'm dealing with the baby-sitters is one more minute I'm not training.
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.
I was intent on doing something productive and on being everything my parents taught me to be. Their values were clear: do good work; don't ever get too big for your breeches; always be an authentic person; don't worry too much about being famous and rich because that doesn't amount to too much.
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