“I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.” EndsWholeAmericaEnjoyFameTreatsWestTheatreBritainConventionsToiletsLimosWest End Author:Sylvester McCoy
“In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.” ArtEnoughAmericaFilmFormCenturyFameHollywoodProfitOscarsEquationsAcademyCharlieBlurMotion PicturesChaplinHonorary Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.” ThinkingYearsDreamKidsWantedAmericaEasyWalksAchieveColorDutyFameHollywoodProofMagazinesComedianInfluentialAnything And EverythingLiving ProofTime Magazine Author:George Lopez
“Never, I say, had a country so many openings to happiness as this.... Her cause was good. Her principles just and liberal. Her temper serene and firm.... The remembrance then of what is past, if it operates rightly must inspire her with the most laudable of an ambition, that of adding to the fair fame she began with. The world has seen her great adversity.... Let then, the world see that she can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to the bravest virtue in time of war.” IfsWorldWarCountryAmericaPastCausesPrinciplesVirtueHonestInspireBearsFameEqualAmbitionFairsAdversityProsperityOpeningFirmTemperRemembranceSerene Author:Thomas Paine
“By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.” FactsGovernmentAmericaCertainDemocracyAchieveTalentProduceNeededFameMessagesProgramFolksDefinitionsEqualityEnvyRageTensionContradictoryRelentlessImmuneEnviousForgedAccessibilityGovernment ProgramsOlympusTinkering Author:Florence King
“New Zealand is not used to wealth. In America wealth is kind of a thing of pride. Here it's the opposite. The more you've got, the bigger the target you are.” KindAmericaUsedWealthPrideFameOppositesBiggerTargetNew Zealand Author:Peter Jackson
“I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If anyone chooses to ignore the message or the messenger, they do so at their own risk. Believe it or not, there are many more people out there that understand what I am trying to do than society wants to admit. The way I live my life represents a much bigger part of America than anyone would care to imagine” PeopleIfsWayWantTryingBelieveReasonHappensCareAmericaSpiritI BelieveImagineRiskHappenedFansRevolutionFameMessagesBiggerAccidentsThings HappenLiving My LifeMessengersKindredI Live My LifeKindred Spirit Author:Marilyn Manson
“I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called The Boy from Oz, where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.” KnowsFirstsPlayAmericaBoysFameMusicalPeterBroadwayOctoberMarrying Author:Hugh Jackman
“Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.” PeopleWayAmericaRoomsWiseShareCrazyCollegeFameNormalStrangerEightRebellionLooking BackBathroomDormsNormal ThingsAdvisableCoed Author:Emma Watson
“Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.” AmericaGriefKingsFameDrivingRatingLarryCounselor Author:James Wolcott
“Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.” MenHumansPlayAmericaYoungPayCompanyAcceptanceActivityFameMajorsHundredBaseballUnionsCreditDecadesManageLeagueBoardsYoung ManHallsHandfulChairmanHuman ActivityHall Of FamePicnicsMajor LeagueMajor League BaseballCredit Unions Author:William Feather
“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.” WorldWisdomAmericaLife IsModernFameClassicGood LifeModern World Author:Clive James
“A review of his work: His music soon spread throughout Europe, and he was invited to America were he performed the Piano Concerto. He would have wished that he would be remembered as an opera composer, but it was to be his orchestral extravaganzas, mainly the trilogy of Roman pictures that has made his name famous.” MadeWould BeAmericaNamesWorkFameEuropeSpreadRememberedPianoReviewsOperaComposerInvitedTrilogies Author:Ottorino Respighi