Quote Tag

We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first, rock ‘n’ roll or Christianity.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

The line between what I really am, and what I am on reel, is slowly diminishing.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Just be nice to me while I am doing the scene; that is all. I don’t want big cars, I don’t want big hotel rooms.

There’s a personal me, there’s an actor me and there’s a star me.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

If there’s anything unsettling to the stomach, it’s watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

It wasn’t glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn’t merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

There is a famous musician, Peter Gabriel, who has used my voice in the movie, ‘The Last Temptation of Christ.’ He used my song in the background.