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"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."
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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."
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"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."
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"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."
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"A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera."
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"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."
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"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."
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"Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud."
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"And it's great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the books and the TV show. But there are so many of them and it just doesn't end. Oh, and 'selfies'! If I could clap my hands and burn out every camera phone in the world, I swear I'd do it!"
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"If you see my fifteen minutes of fame let me know I've been searching for it for years."
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"A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services."
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"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."
Time
"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."
Hope
"Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man."
Success
"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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"To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death."
Death
"All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House."
Talent
"You can be in this business 50 years and still not know anything about it."
Business
"I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt."
People
"The ultimate mystery is one's own self."
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"Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt."
Debt
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