"A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear."

Nicholson, Jack on fame   

"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."

Morrison, Van on fame   

"A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing."

Monroe, Marilyn on fame
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"A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it."

Davis, Miles on fame   

"If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you."

Garland, Judy on fame
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"Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous."

Johnson, Don on fame   

"I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God."

Madonna on fame
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"It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved."

Maugham, W. Somerset on fame
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"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."

Mencken, H. L. on fame   

"Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it."

Morley, Christopher on dance and dancing
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"And we love to dance -- especially that new one called the Civil War Twist. The Northern part of you stands still while the Southern part tries to secede."

Gregory, Dick on dance and dancing
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"The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking."

Duncan, Isadora on dance and dancing   

"I am not the first straight dancer or the last."

Baryshnikov, Mikhail on dance and dancing   

"There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic."

Ziglar, Zig on criticism
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"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Winchell, Walter on criticism
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"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."

Tynan, Kenneth on criticism   

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism
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"What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day."

Roberts, Julia on dating   

"Death is a distant rumor to the young."

Rooney, Andy on death
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"Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready."

Williams, Robin on death
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"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."

Warhol, Andy on death
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

Thurber, James on death   

"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

Thurber, James on death
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. [When asked how she has coped since husband's death.]"

Rowland, Gena on death   

"A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car."

Tynan, Kenneth on criticism   

"If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?"

Slater, Christian on criticism   

"No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy."

Olivier, Sir Lawrence on criticism   

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do."

Costello, Elvis on criticism   

"I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up."

Connolly, Cyril on criticism   

"Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense."

Coen, Ethan on criticism   

"Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing."

Clurman, Harold on criticism   

"Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations."

Chandler, Raymond on criticism   

"It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all."

Chandler, Raymond on criticism   

"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

Bishop, Jim on criticism
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"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect."

Hill, Benny on complaints and complaining
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"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall."

DiCaprio, Leonardo on criticism
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"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

Faulkner, William on criticism
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