Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

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

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Hazlitt, William

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Davis, Bette

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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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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

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May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

28.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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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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Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

31.

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

Blake, William

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

Voltaire

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Capote, Truman

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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

38.

People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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.

40.

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Dave Kellett

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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sewell, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De