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

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

We have the best government that money can buy.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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

I was an overnight sensation.

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.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

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

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

I like to think of Everest as a great mountaineering challenge, and when you’ve got people just streaming up the mountain – well, many of them are just climbing it to get their name in the paper, really.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

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

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

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.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

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

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once it slips, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

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

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I’m easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

Applause waits on success.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.