To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't really care about having more fame than I have.
I never grew up thinking I wanted to be a quote-unquote star or anything. My thing was just feeling blessed to be able to make my living acting.
People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
I don't think fame is that important to me.
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.