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

A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Wolcot, John

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

11.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

12.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

13.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

Davis, Bette

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

16.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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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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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

28.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

29.

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

Carver, George Washington

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

34.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

38.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Auden, W. H.

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

43.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Madonna

45.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward 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..