Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.
—Sarah Bernhardt, 1904
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If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
—Martial, c. 86Reality is always the foe of famous names.
—Petrarch, 1337There lurks in every human heart a desire of distinction which inclines every man first to hope and then to believe that nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
—Samuel Johnson, 1763Men are generally more pleased with a widespread than with a great reputation.
—Pliny the Younger, c. 110Being 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