Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Davis, Miles

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mills, C. Wright

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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.

J. K. Rowling

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

Capote, Truman

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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Madonna

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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'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 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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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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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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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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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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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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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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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.