Fame quotes

“I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.”
Gary Cooper

“Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.”
Tony Curtis

“You know what really gets me though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot shot kid - new star of the college team. Every year it's gonna be a new one. And every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike. Twenty-year-old Mike. Thirty-year-old Mike. Old mean old man Mike.”
Dennis Quaid - Mike

For he did not wish tribute, nor song, nor monuments nor poems of war and valor. His wish was simple "Remember us. Remember why we died".

David Wenham - Dilios

“I can assure you that the stories you hear about John Wick, if nothing else, have been watered down.”
Peter Stormare - Abram

“It seems to me hilarious that our government put the face of Elvis Presley on a postage stamp after he died from an overdose of drugs. His fans don’t mention that because they don’t want to give up their myths. They ignore the fact that he was a drug addict and claim he invented rock ‘n’ roll when in fact he took it from black culture.”
Marlon Brando On Elvis Presley

“Elvis Presley – bloated, over the hill, adolescent entertainer, suddenly drawing people into Las Vegas – had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.”
Marlon Brando On Elvis Presley

“If James Dean had lived they’d have discovered he wasn’t a legend.”
Humphrey Bogart On James Dean

“I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny'.”
Sir Michael Caine

“If you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.”
Morgan Freeman

“I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.”
Morgan Freeman

“Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies.”
Johnny Depp

“Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.”
Jeff Bridges

“A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying.”
Christian Bale

“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.”
Robert De Niro

“I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.”
Heath Ledger

“I get unhappy doing things that I'm not passionate about. Because I feel like I'm squandering this incredible gift I've been given to finance films. As soon as my name alone was enough to make this happen, I vowed to myself that I was going to work with directors who were changing cinema, doing something important, you know?”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“People are always like, 'It must be so hard for you, not to be able to leave your house. I'm like, 'No, I go where I want and do whatever I want all the time.' 'No, you walk down the street?' 'Yeah, I do all the time.' 'Really?' 'Yeah, all the time.'”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.”
Leonardo DiCaprio

“I didn't think I had too many friends left in Hollywood. Gossip about Gary and me was being whispered all over town. No official Cooper separation had been declared and no one wanted to be on the wrong side when the lines were finally drawn. I was no longer the young darling of Hollywood.”

Patricia Neal On Gary Cooper

“There's one wonderful thing about this business. You're privileged to meet some great people. There's a bond of sincere commiseration. The stuffed shirts form a fence behind which the others can get and tell naughty stories.”

Robert Mitchum

“When I was young, MGM was a very exciting place to be. I've always loved movie stars, loved movies, loved everything about them except doing them. It was so tremendously thrilling to go into the commissary for lunch. They were all there - Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr. And there was the lovely, sweet smell of the puncake...” (continue)(continue reading)
Liz Taylor On Clark Gable

“I did not come to Hollywood in the first place because there were fame, riches, and glamour to be gained here. I came here because this is the place where pictures are made, many of them very excellent, and I felt that here was opportunity for the actress.”
Ingrid Bergman

“I never wanted fame. I just became a Kennedy.”
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Richard Levy the Driven: Congratulations. You're actually drinking, driving, smoking, leering and groping at the same time.
- Richard Levy the Shameless: Which on one hand, is just about the coolest thing ever but on the other hand, maybe isn't so great for the image.”

Nathan Lane - Richard Levy the Driven
Sean Hayes - Richard Levy the Shameless