Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Sewell, Thomas

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

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

Capote, Truman

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

Carver, George Washington

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

Pound, Ezra

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

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

Sade, Marquis De

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Kellett

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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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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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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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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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

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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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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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