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

- Johnson, Don

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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

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

Wolcot, John

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

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

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)

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

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Davis, Bette

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

Blake, William

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Rivarol, Antoine

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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

Alexander The Great

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

Capote, Truman

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

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pope, Alexander

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Madonna

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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