If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.

Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in combat.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

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

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.

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

People think I’m a celebrity. I’m not a celebrity.

I never thought about what people would say about me. I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Naturally, my stories are about women – I’m a woman. I don’t know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I’m not always sure what is meant by ‚feminist.‘ In the beginning, I used to say, ‚Well, of course I’m a feminist.‘ But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I’m not.

I hate being called an ‚icon.‘ I just don’t like it. That’s all there is to it.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

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

I always dreamt of holding the bat and winning games for India. That was my inspiration to take up cricket.

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

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Men want to make women happy.

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

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

I have much more support than most women around this world, and I have the financial means to have a home and help with care and food.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

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.

I want to elongate my cricketing career as a consistent player. I have personal goals I would like to achieve someday.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

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

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.