Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Young man, make your name worth something.

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

My name is not 'William Shatner.'

My name is more important than myself.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

When you become a public figure, you still think, 'That's really not me; there's more to me than that.'

I suspect that a lot of studio executives still think of me as 'what's-his-name'.

I will go to my grave being known as Marge Gunderson. It'll be on my gravestone if I have one. I don't mind that, because it was a great character.

Being a known person is pretty much all I've known. I don't remember much of a time when people didn't know who I was.

I've spent the better part of two decades running both toward and away from an image - the Hollywood image - that had come to define me.

I think that if I was only known for who I was as a football player and only that, it just would have been a tragedy.

I've had people hang around me because I'm Bruce Lee's daughter, and it's kind of a blow. You start to ask yourself, 'Who am I?', 'What's valuable about me?', 'Is what's valuable about me that I'm Bruce Lee's daughter?'

Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.

Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.

As a star-son it's a constant struggle to move away from being known as Vinod Khanna's son and create my own space.

Even after the first three series, I'm sure I would've been known all my life as James Herriot. I was concerned that I would dig the hole deeper, and I'm sure that's what I've done. I'm sure of it.

Name recognition takes time.

Some people have such strong memories of me as a young actor, that it's hard to see me as anything else.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?