Motivational Quotes

Fame

I want to be famous everywhere.

- Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Madonna

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

Rosie O'Donnell

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laura Preble

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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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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Dave Kellett

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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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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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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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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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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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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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Bacon, Francis

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

Sade, Marquis De

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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

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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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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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.