Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Wolcot, John

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Cato The Elder

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Bennett, Alan

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

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

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

Pound, Ezra

10.

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

Alexander The Great

11.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

To many fame comes too late.

Camoens, Luis De

16.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

18.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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

20.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

21.

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

22.

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

Sade, Marquis 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

24.

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

Sewell, Thomas

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Nabokov, Vladimir

28.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

30.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

31.

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

32.

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

33.

Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

34.

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

35.

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

36.

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

37.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

39.

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

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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

41.

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

Laura Preble

42.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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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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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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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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Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

47.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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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

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

Ellinger, Jules