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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Jessica Alba

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

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

Benjamin Haydon

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

Vanderbilt, Gloria

10.

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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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

12.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

13.

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.

14.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

15.

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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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

17.

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

18.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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

20.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

21.

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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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

23.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

24.

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

Madonna

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Johnson, Don

28.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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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

30.

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

31.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

32.

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

33.

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

34.

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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

36.

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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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

38.

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

39.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

40.

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

Parkinson, Cecil

41.

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