I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Nobody cleared a path for themselves by giving up.

Facts have a cruel way of substituting themselves for fancies. There is nothing more remorseless, just as there is nothing more helpful, than truth.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

More quotations tagged with “fame”

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

—William Shakespeare

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

—Jessica Alba

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

—J. K. Rowling

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11 Jul 2015 Added