"Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart."

Fame, Sammy Davis, Jr.

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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

"I am your number one fan."

Stephen King, American Author

Fame, Obsession, Power, Love, Emotion

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

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."

People

"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."

Hollywood

"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."

Business

"I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money."

Money

"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."

Gold

"The ultimate mystery is one's own self."

Mystery

"I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding."

Wedding

"If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man."

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"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."

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"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with."

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