Thomas J. Fleming Quotes

Fame is a magnifying glass

My desire for fame is insatiable.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are always linked together.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

People love to see public figures get taken down a notch, and by the same token, everyone loves to be the center of attention, even when there's a target on their forehead.

I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

There are some famous people, and I've met them, who you might think are great, and then you meet them, and you discover that they not only have feet but heads of clay.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Being in the limelight has its minuses.

Having rain on your tuxedo is a pretty good reminder that you're not James Bond.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

There are two things that you never turn down: Sex and an invitation to appear on television.

There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible.

The Da Vinci Code' was a great experience and I was lucky to be chosen, but I don't like the pressure that goes with all these big things. I don't want to be any more famous at all.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

The favorites of fortune or of fame topple from their pedestals before our eyes without diverting us from ambition.

That was one of the things that worried me – to be raised to the position of a semi-god – because then you are no longer a human being. I wanted to be known as Mandela, a man with weaknesses, some of which are fundamental, and a man who is committed, but never the less, sometimes he fails to live up to expectations.

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.