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I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

Celebrity was fun, and I had a good time.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.