Fame came at me a lot quicker and stronger than I imagined.

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

Stardom's transitory. Nothing really changes except people's attitudes.

I think it's a gift to become a star, to become a celebrity.

Being famous is a bit dangerous sometimes.

After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life.

I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

Being an ex-child star is not a given.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

I get as much fan mail today and sign as many autographs as I did when I played. It's mind-boggling to a certain degree.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked...

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

To be somebody you must last.

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

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in...

Being famous is not all that one should want in life... there is much more to life than name and fame...

Oh, look at that, he's heard of me. My fame grows.

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war...

Why shouldn't I? I demand silently. Why shouldn't I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can't I be like...

True freedom comes from being unknown.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on...

A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.

Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her...

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken,...

I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.