Motivational Quotes

Fame

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

- Pitt, Brad

Best Quotes about Fame

1.

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

2.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

3.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

4.

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

5.

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

Sade, Marquis De

6.

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

7.

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

William Shakespeare

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

12.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

13.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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.

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

16.

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

Capote, Truman

17.

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

18.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

19.

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

Proverb, Chinese

20.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

21.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

22.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

23.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

Madonna

26.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

27.

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

Hellman, Lillian

28.

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

29.

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

30.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

36.

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

Caussin, Nicolas

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

40.

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

41.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

42.

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

43.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

44.

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

Johnson, Don

45.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

46.

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

47.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

48.

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

Davis, Miles

49.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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.