The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

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.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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.

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

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

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.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

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.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

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.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

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?

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

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.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

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

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

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 don’t call up the press and say, ‚Look at me!‘

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.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I was an overnight sensation.

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

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.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

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.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

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

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.

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.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

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.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

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.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I never wanted to be Marilyn – it just happened. Marilyn’s like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

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