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

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

Laura Preble

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

Davis, Miles

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

Voltaire

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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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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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Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

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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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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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

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The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Baum, Vicki

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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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

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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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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

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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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dave Kellett

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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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

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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo