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“People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.”

People Knows Kind Different Sometimes Shows Problem Realizing Money Fame Different Kinds Show Business Don't Change

Author:Dolly Parton

“When you reach a certain level of fame or success or income all these magical things are going to happen to you. All of the sudden you're very popular. You're very pretty. Everyone loves you and that's going to fix all your problems.”

Problem Happens Certain Levels Love You Fame Income One Love Very Popular

Author:Jessica Origliasso

“I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.”

Problem Wanted Successful Fame

Author:Jason Patric

“Regardless of how much you enjoy your work, you must accept that everything won't come easily. No one has clear sailing on their voyage to success. You will always meet obstacles to overcome. The attainment of real success isn't based on the absence of problems, but the extraordinary ability to deal with problems. Indeed, you will find greatest satisfaction in overcoming the toughest of problems thrown your way. And only by overcoming great difficulties can you achieve greatness in this world.”

“Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.”

People Trying Heart Problem Causes Wealth Pleasure Fame Intimacy Substitutes Void Intimacy With God Marriage Problems Heart Problems

Author:Francis Chan

“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.”

Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Life Is Regret Terrible Fame Daughter Absolutes Prize Catastrophe Deserving Nobel Nobel Prize Life Regret Having A Daughter Deserving It

Author:Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“For a good man fame is always a problem.”

Men Problem Fame Good Man

Book:The Collected Edition: A burnt-out case

Source: The Collected Edition: A burnt-out case

“In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".”

Problem Night Minutes Tvs Fame Late Host Fifteen Ridicule Obscurity Late Night

Author:Dan Piraro

“I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk around with a bodyguard. My goal is just to get some interesting parts and make enough money to live free. Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it. I want to go to the terrace of a café, have a coffee. I have no problems with the fact that people recognize me, I'm very glad about it, but to be a movie star is kind of unreal for me.”

People Kind Enough Problem Goal Interesting Fame Coffee Glad Compromise Prisoner No Problem Movie Star Unreal Headache Bodyguard Live Free Some Interesting

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a problem.”

Knows Want I Can Real Problem Young Fame Backgrounds Advise Real Problems Young Ones

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.”

Problem Earth Time Humility Fame Property

Author:Willem de Kooning

“The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.”

People Problem Loses Objects Fame Obsession Persona

Author:Dionne Warwick

“When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did [Claude Elwood] Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you.”

“Good people are seldom fully recognised during their lifetimes, and here, there are serious problems of corruption. One day it will be realised that my findings should have been acknowledged. It was difficult, but she always smiled when asked why she went on when recognition eluded her in her own country.”