"I feel like fame is wasted on me."

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"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

Stephen Richards, British Author

Fame, Legend, Meaning, Identity

"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"Don't rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame."

Bernard Kelvin Clive, Ghanaian Author

Fame, Shame, Success, Humility

"Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

Fame, Excess, Money, Alcohol

"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."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Fame, Fire, May, Will

"Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fame, Misunderstanding, Reputation, Name

"Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Fame, Misunderstanding, Name, Life

"Fame is neither something to value nor to view as a threat."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Fame, Values, Threat, Power

"A celebrity starts being a cele-crazy when he's seen often, he's just like the ordinary man in the streets. Without much ado to shout his name, i go my way."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me."

Being

"All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared."

Time

"I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before 'Chuck Woolery' rings the bell."

Movies

"Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are."

People

"Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want."

People

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

Movies

"I like to think that if I were gay I would be out. Rupert Everett-style."

Gay

"There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches."

Being

"I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity."

Insecurity

"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."

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