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

Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.

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

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!

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.

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