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

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

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

Alexander The Great

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

10.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

14.

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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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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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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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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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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

Wolcot, John

28.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Johnson, Don

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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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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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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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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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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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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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

Davis, Bette

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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