Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Source: The Paris Review interview (1981), p. 337
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!
Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer
Source: The Paris Review interview (1981), p. 337
Philip K. Dick book Clans of the Alphane Moon
Source: Clans of the Alphane Moon (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
" Queens of the Stone Age: Josh Homme comes back from the brink http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/jun/01/queens-stone-age-like-clockwork" The Guardian (June 1, 2013)
“All is ephemeral — fame and the famous as well.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Πᾶν ἐφήμερον, καὶ τὸ μνημονεῦον καὶ τὸ μνημονευόμενον.
IV, 35
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“Some famous people owe their fame to controversy.”
Nachman of Breslov (1772–1810) Ukrainian rabbi
יש מפורסמים שעיקר הפרסום שלהם נעשה על ידי מחלוקת
Yesh mefursamim sh'ikar hapirsum shelahem n'ase al yedey mahloket.
Attributed
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Comment on fame, quoted in Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (1993) by Carl E. Rollyson, and in Symbolic Leaders: Public Dramas and Public Men (2006) by Orrin Edgar Klapp
Variant: People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothing.
As quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972) p. 40
Context: When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won't hurt your feelings — like it's happening to your clothes not you.
“Winning the Games will make you famous, losing will mean death.”
Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
Jeremy Irons (1948) English actor
Jeremy Irons: Why our TV isn't what it used to be
The Telegraph
2008-12-20
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/drama/3870293/Jeremy-Irons-Why-our-TV-isnt-what-it-used-to-be.html
2011-08-11
“Fame for me is not external, it’s internal. So I’ve been famous for a long time.”
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress