“Fame itself … doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.”
– David Bowie

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.”
Johnny Depp

“If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I’m still waiting, it’s all been to seduce women basically.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

“There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.”
– Ricky Gervais

“Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.”
– Eminem

“If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I think I understand what military fame is – to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman

“Fame was thrilling only until it became gruelling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.”
– Gloria Swanson

“What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.”
– Lord Byron

“A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.”
– Clive James

“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.”
– Dante Alighieri

Thoughts on fame

Into the Westlands Woods

YEOVIL Amateur Operatic Society is mounting its Autumn production, of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, on the stage at Westlands from Thursday 18th to Saturday 21st October.

The show is directed by Tash Moore with Matt Holman-Holmes in charge of the challenging music.

The theme of this Grimm brothers-inspired musical is “be careful what you wish for”, and it brilliantly weaves the stories of the village baker and his wife who wish to have a child, Cinderella, Jack who wishes his cow would give milk, Little Red, trying to outwith the Wolf so she can visit her grandmother, the witch and her daughter Rapunzel, and two princes chasing after their loves.

The YAOS cast includes Sarah Westaway as the witch, Matt Thompson-Burrows and Charlie Wood as the baker and his wife, Izzy MacGregor as Little Red, Emily Wilson as Granny, Matthew Parker as Jack and Jennifer Holland Brewer as his mother, Leah Driver as Cinderella and Sebastian Watts as her prince, Hannah Long as Rapunzel and Harrison Waterhouse as her prince, Jodie Glover (making an incredibly quick turnaround from her performance at Lyme Regis as the office manager in Glengarry Glen Ross) as both the giant and Sleeping Beauty and Amelia Meldrum as Snow White.

For more details, visit YAOS website.