Motivational Quotes

Fame

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

- Laura Preble

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Wolcot, John

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

11.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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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, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Hellman, Lillian

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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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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 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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I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

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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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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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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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

Johnson, Don

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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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

Blake, William