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"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."
"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."
"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."
"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."
"In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons."
"You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way."
"The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime's Funniest Person in America. And that's a really tough title to travel around with when you're not even known."
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."
Explore more quotes by Kenneth Tynan
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
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