Megan Fox Quotes

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.

The superhighway of celebrity and showmanship is filled with debris.

The media will build you up in a hurry but then, just as fast, will bring you down.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

I know people whose entire lives are ruined by fame. If you make yourself exclusive, people want to break that down, but if you go about doing your shopping, no one bugs you.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

There is no good side to celebrity.

Famous-ness is awesomeness... but some parts of famous-ness can be hard.

We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us or what it means, but I know we do it. I have seen a lot of it myself.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.

To be a celebrity, I couldn't think of anything more cringe-worthy.

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.

I find celebrity really scary.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it's mad that people like me are listened to - you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention; it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.