Being in the Spotlight Quotes

Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life.

I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, "You're famous" and that stops me right there. What does fame mean? Fame is in the eye of the beholder. So, if somebody wants to call me 'famous', that's their business. I'm just me, a guy who messes around with airplanes and writes books that make sense to him.

Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely.

When I'm on stage I feel at home

I'm a bit famous now! It's a bit strange!

I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.

I remember, once I was going through Nice airport with Roger Moore, and these kids came up and asked for our autographs. Afterwards, Roger said, 'It must be very strange for you. I'm an actor, and signing autographs is part of what I do. But you're a public figure who people don't really know.' He was right.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job.

I don't think that I've ever been a backup.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

It's absolutely fun to walk around and have people respect you. When Michael Jackson did Thriller, I was in the park one day, and a girl came up to me and said, "Man, the only people they talk about around here are Michael Jackson and you." It was pretty flattering to be considered in the same light as the king of pop in my area.

When everyone's kind of watching you when you're out and about, it makes it hard.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.