Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

Unless you're a star in this town, you're really nothing.

My pastor said, Just because you were a celebrity doesn't mean you're supposed to be a celebrity now.

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Fame is morally neutral.

I want to become more famous, even more famous.

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

Since becoming a global star, if I may say so, I feel six feet tall.

Once you are accepted as a star, as a good artiste, nothing else matters.

I did not expect to become a celebrity or be known by the public at all.

No, fame has not changed Wizkid.

I think if you are a talented person, your story makes you a bigger star rather than the art.

Fame is an apparition. Fame is a side effect of success.

'Famous' is a very weird word. I feel like - I feel like that's definitely not me.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.

Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

When I walked into the room to meet Michael Landon, it was clear he was a big-time star. To be around him was as far from Charles Ingalls as you could get. The hair was the same - no one touched his hair.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.