A Quote by Martial
If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it.
[Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
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In a moment comes either death or joyful victory.
[Lat., Horae
Momento cita mors venit aut victoria laeta.]
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Thou fool, what is sleep but the image of death? Fate will give an eternal rest.
[Lat., Stulte, quid est somnus, gelidae nisi mortis imago?
Longa quiescendi tempora fata dabunt.]
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
From no place can you exclude the fates.
[Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.]
If you spend a thing you can not have it.
[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
Money, make money; by honest means if you can; if not, by any means make money.
[Lat., Rem facias rem, Recte si possis, si non, quocumque modo rem.]
Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]
One has no protecting power save prudence.
[Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
Who prates of war or want after his wine?
[Lat., Quis post vina gravem militiam aut pauperiem crepat?]
If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
[Lat., Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini.]
What, if as said, man is a bubble.
[Lat., Quod, ut dictur, si est homo bulla, eo magis senex.]
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
[Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
Of what use is a fortune to me, if I cannot use it?
[Lat., Quo mihi fortunam, si non conceditur uti?]
As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.
I have to say, post-fame was difficult because it wasn't just fame: it was super-fame of a kind that few have. It was attached to a generation's dreams, and my own personal dreams were mixed up in it, too.
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