I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.
I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.
Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!
I never pursued being 'famous. '
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.
All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello. ' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.