Motivational Quotes

Fame

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

- Capote, Truman

Best Quotes about Fame

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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

Rosie O'Donnell

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

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

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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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

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Hazlitt, William

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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

16.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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

Alexander The Great

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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.

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

Auden, W. H.

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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 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 present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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

Boorstin, Daniel J.

44.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

Keats, John

47.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

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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.

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Vanderbilt, Gloria