Bill Medley Quotes

Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

All of a sudden, one day, you're this boxer that everybody like, or you're this guy that people pass on the highway and wave at. The next day, you're this guy that everybody want to touch - be in touch with you. Then you think that this is the answer to all things.

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.

Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

Fame is a magnifying glass

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

When you win, suddenly this celebrity status is hoisted upon you.

Since becoming a global star, if I may say so, I feel six feet tall.

I never really wanted to be No. 1 and a big shot, have people playing up to me all the time. I wasn't comfortable with any of it.

If people love you, if you're making money, if the performances you have are unlike anything anyone has ever seen, you get put in a position to be the man.

Once you are accepted as a star, as a good artiste, nothing else matters.

People recognise me now. I've got so much fan mail.

My life since the Miss Universe win has changed completely, in fact I do not think my life will ever be the same again.