"I love my gay fans. Gay people are always usually my best friends in the whole world. I completely adore them."

"Seriously, I have the best fans ever."

"I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous."

"The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff."

"If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care."

"Fame had brought me so much unhappiness."

". . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous."

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

The stage floor was a stage of thin ice for me to tread. To hold my own or to sink through and die, never to be remembered.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

“Talent is god-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.

'Fame' exhausts me.