“We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.”
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“Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.”
“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.”
“I wanted to be successful, not famous.”
“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?”
“I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.”
“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”
“For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.”
“I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.”
“I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”
“You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.”
“It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.”
“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.”
“There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.”
“I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.”
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
“Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.”
“People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.”
“I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.”
“A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.”
“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.”
“For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.”
“Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.”
“Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.”