#fame

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#already #basically #case #child #child abuse

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable. ↗

— Alonzo Mourning

#amount #basketball #coach #college #derived

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

— Edward Norton

#corrosive #fame #guard #strictly #very

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. ↗

— Kim Novak

#acting #fame #i #loved #meaning

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#bad #bad guy #because #belief #controlled

Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones. ↗

— Gary Numan

#cars #contract #electric #fame #first

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. ↗

— Conan O'Brien

#because #caused #controversy #eligible #fame

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. ↗

— Ed O'Brien

#band #fame #itself #kind

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. ↗

— Richard O'Brien

#fame #ground #hollow #kind #rest

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again. ↗

— Sinead O'Connor

#curse #fame #go #god #i