"They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes."
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"I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me."
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"The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless."
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"I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked"
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"I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on what I was doing."
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"Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it."
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"Success. Money. Fame. Whatever you're going after. You have one kick at the can, I always say. It's very rare that you have many kicks at the can. You're there at the right place at the right time, you have your shot, and it either works or it doesn't. And I've had many shots."
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"I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp..."
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"People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually."
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"Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything."
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"A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame."
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"Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day."
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"Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world."
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"The love of fame puts spurs to the mind"
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"Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity."
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"I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting."
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"You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you."
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"The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply."
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"Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser."
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"I think for much of the middle classes, nothing could be more fantastic than to have a contact with fame. But once you have that contact with fame and find out how vacuous it is, that it doesn't answer anything or supply any ultimate revelation to cosmic dilemmas and you're still left with yourself, then it's back to the drawing room with fading light and one light bulb out in the very expensive chandelier that no one has bothered to replace."
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