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Acquaintance lessens fame.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

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

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy.