I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I’m not a star. I don’t feel I’m so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you’ve got my signature on a piece of paper?

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Think of our physical sustenance. It is truly heaven-sent. The necessities of air, food, and water all come to us as gifts from a loving Heavenly Father.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

I think sometimes celebrities get so big, they’re not reachable.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

I love the sea.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

Some people are very good at being ‚stars‘ and it suits them. I’m grudging about it and I find it annoying.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

I get really restless when I haven’t worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

There’s Madeleine, and then there’s ‚Madeleine Albright‘. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become ‚Madeleine Albright‘ it doesn’t go away.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.