Motivational Quotes

Fame

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about 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

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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

Davis, Bette

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Ellinger, Jules

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Capote, Truman

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Madonna

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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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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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

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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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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

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