They gave me star treatment because I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

With fame I became more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

We are all clever enough at envying a famous man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.