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

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

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

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

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

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

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!

Fame is but the empty noise of madmen.

And what will history say of me a thousand years hence?

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

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

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.