It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting...

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their...

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I’m an instant star, just add water.

Several famous people have licked my nipples. Well, indirectly. First they licked the stamps, and then I peeled them off the letters and stuck them on my nipples.

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.

In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having...

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

If you don’t have shadows, you’re not in the light.

Today’s generation didn’t want to watch ancient actors reciting the same tired lines. They wanted to see themselves reflected onscreen –rude, raw, entitled. These kids needed to believe that they themselves were only one daring,...

Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day, and “beautiful” will never mean as much in a magazine as it will...

French Louis Seymour of the West Canada Creek, who knew how to survive all alone in a treacherous wilderness, and Mr. Alfred G. Vanderbilt of New York City and Raquette Lake, who was richer than...

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Be What You Want To Be,Not Who Others Wants To See

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,The labor of an age in pilèd stones,Or that his hallowed relics should be hidUnder a star-y-pointing pyramid?Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,What need’st thou such...

I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is “In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

If I didn’t care for fun and such,I’d probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.

Fame, it is not enjoyable,

Always contend for the good!

Fame comes and goes; knowledge comes and stays. But none of them safeguard us against danger; it’s only the GRACE of God that keeps us in safety!

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

In Italian there is an expression: We don’t sleep on the fame.

I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes.

We’re not ready to get him (Lewis) in the Hall of Fame yet. But he has made a lot of progress and you can see him daily getting better.

A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he’s seen often, he’s just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way.

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Author says he suffered from both “a craving to be famous” and “a horror of being known to like being known.

The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Fame or perceived success – it all comes from groupthink.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the...

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.

If you lose your integrity, you will also lose your identity, your sensitivity and your dignity. Integrity is honesty, modesty and security in all kinds of weather. It should be our priority!

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Barry has a history of being generous to the Hall of Fame. Though he hasn’t donated anything from home run No. 700, we have numerous artifacts already in Cooperstown from his career.

Italian-Americans in New York had not been in much of a flag-waving mood prior to DiMaggio’s arrival. By the All-Star break, the rookie had established himself as a wonderful player (.358, 10HR, 60 RBIs), fully...

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that’s all that seems to count. He’s rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with...

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.