"Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door."

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"Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy."

Erika Slezak, American Actress

Fame, Fortune, Nothing

"A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity."

Edward Tufte, American Educator

Fame, 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."

Sharon Stone, American Actress

Fame, First

"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."

Kenneth Tynan, English Critic

Fame, Disease, Hollywood, Oysters

"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."

Mike Tyson, American Athlete

Fame, Day, Fight

"I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be."

George Steinbrenner, American Businessman

Fame, Want

"The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you."

Gloria Vanderbilt, American Designer

Fame, Taste

"When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned."

Lee Haney, American Athlete

Fame, Ladies, Old, Saying

"Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner."

Alessandro Del Piero, Italian Athlete

Fame, Parents, Right

"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."

Erica Jong, American Novelist

Fame, Writing, Seduction, Art

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"I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows."

Family

"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."

Life

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

Father

"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."

Losing

"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."

Work

"I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist."

Time

"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."

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"Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy."

"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."

"Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood."

"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."

"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."

"When little old ladies recognize a guy who was Mr. Olympia, that's saying something. That means I've been able to cross lines as far as marketability is concerned."

"Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner."

"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."

Explore more quotes by Marlo Thomas

"I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows."

"I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it."

"My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better."

"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."

"In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times."

"I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist."

"We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof."

"Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning."

"Nothing is either all masculine or all feminine except having sex."

"It's fascinating for us women to begin looking at our lives in five-year plans. It really does help you keep on track. If that's too hard, start with a two-year plan."