Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

I don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

You know, from age 17 on, my paycheck was coming from cooking and working in kitchens.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn’t want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I have worked ever since I was 13.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!