Now there is fame! Of all—hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public—fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation by God of the artist. It is sad. It is true.

A woman’s greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

When I do a show, the whole show revolves around me, and if I don’t show up, they can just forget it.

All people have the common desire to be elevated in honor, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.

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!

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.

I won’t be happy till I’m as famous as God.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

He who treats another human being as divine thereby assigns to himself the relative status of a child or an animal.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.