I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

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

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 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.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

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.

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

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.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

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

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.

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

Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

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.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Water is my drink.

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

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

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

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

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 the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

Water’s never clumsy.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

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

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

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

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

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 hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.