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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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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
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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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"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."
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"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."
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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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"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."
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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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"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
Reality
"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
"What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent."
Education
"You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear."
Fear
"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."
Fight
"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
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