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

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

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

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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 am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Material things ain’t nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you is. You wasn’t born with it; you gon‘ die without it.

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.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I want to support other women because of the opportunities I’ve had – and I’ve had a lot of opportunities. What I try as a female director is to do the best job I can and, in the meantime, bring attention to as many other female directors and writers as I can.

It was because the chimps are so eye-catching, so like us and teach us so much that my work was recognised worldwide.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.

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.

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

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

My fat never made me less money.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

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

All you have in business is your reputation – so it’s very important that you keep your word.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

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

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Of course awards matter.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it’s been proven that they were not exaggerating.

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

If the American people don’t love me, their descendants will.

All movements go too far.

It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

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.

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