Richard O'Brien Quotes
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.
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I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
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Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
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I'm sitting on top of the world, and I've got hemorrhoids.
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I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
