Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is an aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

Everybody wants to see a film made on them... But it's not like I will die of hunger if it's not made.

I've been all over the world. I've been to Japan, Africa, Morocco, everywhere. Heck yeah, I would go to Ireland. Why not?

Everybody knows who I am.

I think it's a personal pride to hear everyone talking about me.

I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing.

I know, everywhere I go, I have the door open because I am a great footballer and a great person.

I am the best in the world, and all these guys are fighting me to gain credit.

People say money changes people. So does ego and so does social media. And so does the press. I think that all of that mixed in between - you really gotta keep yourself grounded.

I want to be important.

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.