Motivational Quotes

Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

- Wynette, Tammy

Best Quotes about Fame

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

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

Villiers, George

What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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

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

Dave Kellett

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Chateaubriand, Vicomte De

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

Davis, Bette

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

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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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'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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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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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

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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Wolcot, John

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Sade, Marquis De

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I was the only one there I never heard of.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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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

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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 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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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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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.