If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it’s being washed up right after.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.
I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.
For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.
It’s really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don’t hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don’t do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can’t be on top all the time, it isn’t natural.
When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image.
People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
