Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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 hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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

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

Madonna

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

Johnson, Don

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Davis, Bette

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

Benjamin Haydon

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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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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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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

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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

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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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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mills, C. Wright

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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

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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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