Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Mills, C. Wright

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Don

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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 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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

Voltaire

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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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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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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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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 is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Madonna

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Wolcot, John

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Davis, Bette

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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