Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Morrison, Van

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Dave Kellett

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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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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

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

Alexander The Great

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

Warhol, Andy

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Madonna

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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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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Pound, Ezra

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

33.

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

Johnson, Don

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Villiers, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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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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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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.