"Fame gives you everything you never wanted."
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"Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best."
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"And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits."
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"The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important."
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"Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name."
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"The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image."
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"The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation."
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"Fame is a form of misunderstanding."
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"Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame."
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"I'm not interested in fame at all."
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"We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to."
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"If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead."
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"If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash."
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"My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions."
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"How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead."
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"What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly."
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
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"Invisibility is the only thing that fame cost me. I used to be able to go places and blend in. Anonymity is something you lose on this side of things."
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"I awoke one morning and found myself famous."
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"Fame hit me like a ton of bricks."
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