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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Cato The Elder

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Pope, Alexander

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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

Laura Preble

10.

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

11.

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

Ellinger, Jules

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

Warhol, Andy

20.

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

21.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

23.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

25.

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

26.

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

Dave Kellett

27.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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.

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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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

32.

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

33.

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

Sade, Marquis De

34.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

37.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carver, George Washington

39.

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

40.

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

Davis, Bette

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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

43.

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

45.

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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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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I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

Salma Hayek

49.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Wolcot, John