Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

- Rosie O'Donnell

Best Quotes about Fame

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

10.

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

11.

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

Capote, Truman

12.

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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

14.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

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

16.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

17.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

18.

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

Johnson, Don

19.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

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

21.

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

Huxley, Aldous

22.

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

Madonna

23.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

24.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

25.

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

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

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

Ellinger, Jules

33.

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

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Cato The Elder

35.

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

Rosie O'Donnell

36.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

38.

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

39.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

40.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

41.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

43.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Carver, George Washington

45.

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

46.

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

Sade, Marquis De

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

49.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

Blake, William

50.

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