The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

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

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.

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.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

The other day I… uh, no, that wasn’t me.

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

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

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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 have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

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.

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.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

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

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.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

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

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

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

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.

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

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

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.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

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

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

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.

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

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can’t not be what everyone says I am. But I don’t feel like an icon.

This character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.

I was an overnight sensation.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.