Jesse Owens Quotes

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I still remember going to a smart restaurant in Los Angeles, and the maitre d' knew my name and showed me straight to a table even though we hadn't booked. I get stopped for autographs by people from Sweden on the tops of mountains.

My filthy little secret is that I've always wanted to be famous and I don't get nervous being on TV.

I'm like really famous. I got a famous anus.

I almost never get recognised in the street.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

I definitely wanted to be famous as a kid, but as I've gotten older, I feel less comfortable with it.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

In Germany I am not so famous.

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous.

I was famous from birth.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.

You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.

I live in a country where I'd say nine out of ten people know me when I walk through the streets. There's people taking pictures, there's tabloids trying to make up stories. I'm used to that. The same thing when I'm in Australia or the U.K.: I get stopped.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

I often get recognized on the street.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

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 don't really consider myself to be famous.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.