People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you’re going. They want to hear you talk about your family.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

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.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

We are not going to be satisfied by politicians saying ‚we support you‘ and then walking away. We won’t be satisfied until they meet our demands and act. That’s why simply taking a selfie or posting support on Twitter isn’t enough. That’s why we have to keep striking.

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

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

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

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.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

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

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

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

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It’s gossip.

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

Now the playbook is we build AI tools to go find these fake accounts, find coordinated networks of inauthentic activity, and take them down; we make it much harder for anyone to advertise in ways that they shouldn’t be.

I’m standing behind a wall of jokes. You don’t know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I’m not on the road. There’s this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don’t know anything about me.

The longer a man’s fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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

You don’t know when you’re being watched. That’s one of the weird things about celebrity. It’s my least favorite part of acting, celebrity.

I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

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.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

After launching the first version of Facebook for a few thousand users, we would discuss how this should be built for the world. It wasn’t even a thought that maybe it could be us. We always thought it would be someone else doing it.

I don’t like people looking at someone else’s image.

Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.

The only way I hear gossip is if it’s big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it’s, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

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.

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

When I’m surfing, I’m sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

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.

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

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

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

This younger generation that’s around, that’s tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

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!

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

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.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.