Quotes About Fame

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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

Nothing's funny about someone who's successful.

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

But really what we're saying is that the Mona Lisa is famous because it's more like the Mona Lisa than anything else.

In the United States, for example, two equally skilled and disciplined athletes—one a world-class gymnast and the other a world-class basketball player—are likely to enjoy wildly different degrees of fame and fortune through no fault or merit of their own.

Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Rather be alive and be knowned than be dead and forgetten.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. I guess I'm kind of happy where I'm at, and I take whatever comes, and it's a good thing.

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

for some people life outside the spotlight is death.

If I had to change one thing about my life, it would probably be, I wouldn't be famous. Because when you're famous it's so hard.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

I would have wanted to be a rock star, a lead singer, if I wasn't a model. I'd go touring in a bus with my band. In my next life, that's the plan.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.