Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.
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I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.
I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.
I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.
I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time.
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