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

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.

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.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

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.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

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

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.

A useless life is an early death.

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.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

Obviously, there’s a part of me that takes the world of violence and death very seriously. However, when it comes to protection, or when it comes to just the skill of shooting… I’ve gone to the range with sniper rifles and things like that.

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

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

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

I always wanted to be loved.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Desire is the essence of a man.

Charm is a way of getting the answer ‚Yes‘ without asking a clear question.

I always wanted more – more of everything.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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.