Motivational Quotes

Fame

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

- Wynette, Tammy

Best Quotes about Fame

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

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

Caussin, Nicolas

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.

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

Dave Kellett

Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

Pitt, Brad

16.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

17.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

I won't be happy till I'm as famous as God.

Madonna

19.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

20.

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

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

24.

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

Cato The Elder

25.

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

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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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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.

28.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

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

Sade, Marquis De

30.

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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

32.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

33.

Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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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Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.

Proverb, French

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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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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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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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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A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Allen, Fred A.

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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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

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

Davis, Bette

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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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