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

—Julie Burchill, 1986

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Pliny the Younger, c. 110

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!

—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

—Sammy Davis Jr., 1965

How sweet it is to have people point and say, “There he is.”

—Persius, c. 60
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