“What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.”
Voltaire
“I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.”
Yusuf Islam
“If we knew it was going to become famous, we would have given it a better name.”
William Herbst
“I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.”
Ani Difranco
“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”
Ray Charles
“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.”
Britney Spears
“You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses”
Sally Jessy Raphael
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