I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

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

Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.

It’s dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you’re me. Or when you’re anyone in the public eye.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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

Barack Obama did tell me that I was one of Michelle Obama’s favorite actors.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.

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

I’m home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I use my celebrity status to inspire someone, to give them hope.

I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

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.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

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

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

I don’t want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I don’t want to be on the Internet.

It’s against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

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.

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.

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 don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

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.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.