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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being "somebody," to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases. The performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror. For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

Fame is the beginning of the fall of greatness.

It is foolish for someone to seek credit for his ancestor's achievements.

In the past, one desired to acquire fame and to be talked about. But that is not sufficient anymore, because the market has grown too big -- nothing less than screaming will do.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame. Give me the man who living makes a name.

Throughout my life, I have seen narrow -- shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Fame is only good for one thing -- they will cash your check in a small town.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame -- to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet, we confuse them every day. By doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.