Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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)

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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

Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind.

Virgil

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

Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cato The Elder

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Maro, Virgil Publius Vergilius

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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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He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang-tzu

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

Auden, W. H.

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

Davis, Miles

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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

Sade, Marquis 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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There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Hazlitt, William

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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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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Shakespeare, William

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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Salma Hayek

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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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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