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Daily Inspiration Quote by Jane Badler

"It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it"

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Fame, in Jane Badler's telling, works best as a vaccine: a small, controlled dose that teaches your body not to crave the disease. The line lands because it flips the usual celebrity-origin story. Instead of presenting notoriety as a peak to chase forever, she frames it as a clarifying experience that can actually lower your appetite for it. That inversion feels especially credible coming from an actress whose career includes a highly specific pop-cultural imprint: recognizable enough to open doors and haunt typecasting, not so omnipresent that it calcifies into permanent spectacle.

The intent is pragmatic, almost parental. Badler isn't romanticizing anonymity; she's endorsing a kind of calibrated visibility. Get a taste, understand the mechanics, then move on. The subtext is sharper: fame is seductive largely when it's hypothetical. From the outside, it reads as validation, power, insulation from ordinary insecurity. From the inside, it’s paperwork and projection: loss of privacy, the whiplash of public opinion, the strange reduction of a complicated person into a single role, face, or meme.

Her phrasing, "hanker", is doing quiet work. It suggests hunger with a slightly undignified edge - the kind of yearning that can make smart people behave like gamblers. By calling fame "a good thing to happen to you", she also asserts agency after the fact: she’s not denying its perks, she’s claiming the lesson. In a culture that treats attention as currency, Badler offers an unfashionable metric of success: wanting less.

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Badler, Jane. (2026, January 17). It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-is-a-good-thing-to-happen-to-you-to-have-that-74900/

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Badler, Jane. "It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-is-a-good-thing-to-happen-to-you-to-have-that-74900/.

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"It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-is-a-good-thing-to-happen-to-you-to-have-that-74900/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.

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Jane Badler (born December 31, 1953) is a Actress from USA.

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