Fame is the thirst of youth.
Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
I will either be famous or infamous.
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.
It’s funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: ‘So, what does it take to make it?’ Well, first explain to me what you mean by ‘making it’: Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It’s about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Just because you’re not famous, doesn’t mean you’re not good.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
