Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

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.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Joanne‘ is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

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

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

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.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

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.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

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.

I just hope people don’t get sick of us. I’m sick of us and I’m in Destiny’s Child.

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer – or maybe president.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.