Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Laura Preble

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

Madonna

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

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

10.

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

11.

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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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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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

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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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

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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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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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 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

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

Voltaire

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

Pound, Ezra

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

34.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

37.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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

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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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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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

Chuang-tzu

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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