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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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Best Quotes about Fame

1.
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.
Updike, John

2.
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

3.
The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

4.
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

5.
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

6.
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Davis, Bette

7.
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

8.
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.
Mills, C. Wright

9.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

10.
You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
Dave Kellett

11.
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
Proverb, Chinese

12.
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

13.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
Davis, Miles

14.
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

15.
Popular applause veers with the wind.
Bright, John

16.
Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.
Miller, Henry

17.
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.
Smyth, Dame Ethel

18.
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)

19.
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Picasso, Pablo

20.
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

21.
It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

22.
Fame is proof that the people are gullible.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
Sade, Marquis De

24.
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.
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

26.
Fame is a constant effort
Renard, Jules

27.
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

28.
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Johnson, Don

29.
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

30.
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.
Roth, Philip

31.
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

32.
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Dickinson, Emily

33.
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.
Sewell, Thomas

34.
Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.
Shakespeare, William

35.
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
Warhol, Andy

36.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
Villiers, George

37.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Hellman, Lillian

38.
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?
Keats, John

39.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Cicero, Marcus T.

40.
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

41.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.
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

43.
I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.
Salma Hayek

44.
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
Auden, W. H.

45.
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
Blake, William

46.
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

47.
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Huxley, Aldous

48.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
Hazlitt, William

49.
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
Carlyle, Thomas

50.
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Chateaubriand, Vicomte De


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