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

He would make a lovely corpse.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

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.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.

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

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.

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

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

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?

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

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 had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

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

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

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.

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

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

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

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?

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.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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

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

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.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

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

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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 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.

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

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

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

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

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.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.