“Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“There's a lot of baggage that comes along with our family, but it's like Louis Vuitton baggage.”— Kim Kardashian, onsizzle.com
“What is my talent? Well, a bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he's talented, but he's not famous. Do you know what I mean?”— Kim Kardashian, theguardian.com
“It shouldn’t be about getting famous. It shouldn’t be about the size of your following. It should be about the way in which you connect with people in the world around you. It’s about finding what you’re truly passionate about, and letting that guide you. Fame is fleeting. But if you’re really lucky…”— Justine Ezarik, amazon.com
“One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world’s end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.”— Daniel Gilbert, amazon.com
“I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.”— Kanye West, marieclaire.co.uk
“Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.”— Wilkie Collins, amazon.com
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teac…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com