Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Benjamin Haydon

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Carver, George Washington

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Updike, John

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

Cato The Elder

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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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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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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Fame is a constant effort

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

David Nicholls

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Blake, William

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

Johnson, Don

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

Dave Kellett

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

Laura Preble

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Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Baum, Vicki

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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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