Local Celebrity Quotes

A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from us.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

When I walk down the boardwalk, people stop me and say, 'Oh, your house is the one that glows.'

When I go to the gas station or the restaurant, people still come up and say hi.

I don't get recognized in England. Not at all. Every so often, I get recognized in other countries.

It's interesting how the view from abroad can shift and remake perceptions of homegrown celebrities, the ones who are part of the gross domestic product.

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

If you know sports in Dade County, you know me.

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

I don't think I'll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20,000 people live there and 12,000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.

We used to have a bull. A real bull. At that time, Jennifer Lopez was my neighbor. God bless her, she took it. But other neighbors did not like it, that we have a bull.

I feel like I was born to do this. When I signed with the WWE, the newspaper and TV stations in my high-school community of Alexandria, Virginia, were like, 'Oh my gosh, this is so perfect.'

You can be the best coach in the world and if you go to dinner in New York, nobody knows you, but here in Syracuse it’s very different.

Someone who gave me a lot of confidence was my friend Martin Taylor, he's the most famous man in Bolton. He is a pianist and used to play in one of the local pubs. He would sing everything from classical to rock to pop. He was amazing.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area. I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

I secured Big Jam through my buzz in the city. My name got bigger and bigger throughout my 1st year of rapping.

People in Andhra Pradesh treat me like a girl next door after 'Ala Modalaindi.' I feel at home here.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

I've kinda been an off-Broadway sensation. There aren't a lot of lights or big marquees around my name or my work, yet my core audience knows exactly where I am.

Man, I'm pretty spoiled in San Antonio. I don't do media every day.

Where I grew up, people obviously knew my dad because it's a small place and he was the top player for Swinton - they'd go and watch him play, see him in the papers, so they knew he was black.

Most of the people in Donegal knew me long before I was an actor. But even since then, they don't talk that much about it, which is very nice.

I've always been the local lad, boy done well, kid next door.

When I was growing up, I didn't have a hometown hero.