W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

'Celebrity' is sort of an idea. I mean, I get to do something extraordinary, but I don't think it makes me extraordinary. That's my opinion. I like to be an artist; I like to do things that are involved in the arts, but I don't think it makes me more special than a doctor, for example. A doctor is an extraordinary person.

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

Celebrity doesn't have anything to do with art or craft. It's about being rich and thinking that you're better than everybody else.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

How vain, without the merit, is the name.

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

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

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

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.