Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Soon, I’ll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

My songs are like my children – I expect them to support me when I’m old.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

He would make a lovely corpse.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Compton got such a legacy in hip-hop.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

When you’re a pop star, it’s a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Applause waits on success.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

There was a time Michael Jackson couldn’t get his video on MTV because he was considered to be ‚urban.‘ The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I’m gone, after I’m dead.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.