Motivational Quotes

Fame

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

- Jessica Alba

Best Quotes about Fame

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Davis, Bette

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

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Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De

19.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

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Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria

33.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.

Warhol, Andy

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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

40.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

41.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

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Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

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It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

45.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls