Pippa Middleton Quotes

It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.

I have a famous brother, and I see what his life's like. He can stay places 15 minutes, and then he's got to leave. So I've seen what it's like to be famous, and I haven't really aspired to be a huge mega-star - not that I've had that opportunity.

Nothing could prepare you for being instantly famous.

Having to deal with people all of a sudden knowing who we were and knowing our music and all the rest of it was definitely something that we had to get used to.

Overnight, I became a public figure.

From a nobody, I seem to have become a celebrity of sorts overnight. I am dumbstruck and overwhelmed.

It was very hard when the newspapers were chasing me. It was also very weird. I know I'd just become world champion but shouldn't they be following someone who has done something wrong?

I would say that it's quadruple what I've had when I've won major championships in the past. I've gotten faxes and phone calls from all over the world. It's been overwhelming. It's really changed my opinion of humanity.

Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

If anyone wants to know the weirdest thing, it's getting your hair cut and seeing it on the news. Terrorists probably knew about my haircut.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

All the shows we did pre-airdate, and I'd come out - "Rob Lowe!" - and it was [Offers bored applause.] After the show aired? I came out - "Rob Lowe!" - and the place was, like, bedlam. And then the next week, they wouldn't let anyone under the age of 20 into the audience. And I'm going, "So that's how it works! Okay!"

Fondest memory of being a Beatle: Having three brothers.

I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.

Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.

What of fame? Everybody knows your name: never again are you alone.