Quotes About Fame

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

When I hear people complain about fame, it always sounds to me like, "Why do they pay me in gold bars? Gold bars are so heavy." But fame is not creativity, it's the industrial disease of creativity. Fame is a real experience, but it's not a Canadian experience, and nothing about growing up in Canada prepares you for a public life.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

and Justin Beaver's greatest hits. He's totes the best musician ever.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

I'm a role model now. ... I want to be a better person because I don't want to disappoint those girls. I stop and think about my actions more. I tip great, I try not to swear too much, and I remember to thank people and be grateful. And all that stuff I do to "appear' better has actually made me a better person. I wish I had always acted like I was a little bit famous.

Bennifer was so big it was as though two people had never been in love before, and they had discovered it.

Haters are just more people paying attention to you. (P.21)

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famous and busy that I only ever find these insults amusing, and chuckle at them good-naturedly before I get on my private jet to be a UN Ambassador to Cameroon, or wherever.

almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair. I

The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famous and busy that only ever find these insults amusing, and chuckle at the good-naturedly before I get on my private jet to be a UN ambassador to Cameroon, or wherever.

I do not need to hear people tearing into Lisa Lampanelli for liking to have sex only with black men. I'm sad that this is her famous running gag. I'm sad that I now know this. I'm sad that a legitimate rung on the ladder of making it in comedy is writing hateful stuff about total strangers. I don't know.

While I chewed on my eleven brioche rolls, I saw the likes of Gen. David Petraeus, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, and that guy from Magic Mike, who also played a hot werewolf and was supposed to have a huge wang. It was an extremely glamorous night.

Being known is really fun, extremely strange, and not very important. This

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

The kick in the teeth with fame is, when you don't have it, you beat yourself up for it because you don't have it, but when you have it, you are miserable and kill yourself for it.

You're buying into this celebrity bullshit? Don't you know it's all a facile celebration of commerce and mediocrity?

There was Donald Trump. He had his name on gold-plated buildings and was the star of his own reality show. He had more than anyone could ever dream of, but as he stabbed his phone with his odd little orange fingers he looked like the saddest man on the planet.

At home am a nice guy, but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't get very far

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.