It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

23.

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

24.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

25.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

26.

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

Dave Kellett

27.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo

28.

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

29.

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

30.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

31.

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

32.

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

Sade, Marquis De

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

36.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

37.

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

Alexander The Great

38.

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

39.

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

Ellinger, Jules

40.

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

Sewell, Thomas

41.

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

42.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

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

Cato The Elder

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

47.

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

48.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

49.

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

Johnson, Don

50.

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