Fame Quotes - Page 3

I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.

The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols," he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then "cut their legs from under them," simply "to make their fall all the greater.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

we've learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see.

Jeanne Ryan

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

Hayden Pearton

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

Dave Holmes

In this age where people can become famous without doing anything, we are now encouraging a literary and publishing atmosphere where you must become famous before you can do anything.

Daniel R. Thorne

But one has to ask: why do the big things at such a high cost? I chose the quiet life. I like the idea of being recognized by my field and no one else. This way I have a purpose, one I believe in, but I'm not burdened by the constant idea of putting on a public image, a view of myself the masses can accept. Nobody cares whether I'm fat or cheat on my taxes. It is not the only right kind of life, of course, but it is the honest life for me. What I'm saying is, I make the right choices for myself.

Jaroslav Kalfar

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.

Jennifer Mason-Black

While yes, it’s good to have a fair amount of haters, it’s not good to have them on the street, where their anonymity can let them slip away without serious repercussions if they slight you, and this made me realize that fame, on its own, without fear, actually totally fucking sucks.

A.D. Aliwat

Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name

Gregory Benford

I'm a role model now. ... I want to be a better person because I don't want to disappoint those girls. I stop and think about my actions more. I tip great, I try not to swear too much, and I remember to thank people and be grateful. And all that stuff I do to "appear' better has actually made me a better person. I wish I had always acted like I was a little bit famous.

Mindy Kaling

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena.

A.D. Aliwat

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you’re famous, it’s as if you’ve got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

Heathcote Williams

I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.

Thomm Quackenbush

It was not impulse.It was not lust.It was not wrath, or boredom, or desperation.People remembered the saints because they had their tokens.

Pam Jones

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

Eric Reynolds

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.

Jewel

Who was he if not destined for fame?

Madeline Miller

His being famous didn’t give him a right to use her and treat her like dirt.

Michelle Madow

Brevity Is Best: Nicknamed "Silent Cal," President Calvin Coolidge was once challenged by a reporter, saying, "I bet someone that I could get more than two words out of you." Coolidge responded, "You lose." The notion of crafting six word memoirs really took off after Smith Magazine shared this poignant one written by Ernest Hemingway: "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." Pithiness Pays Off For Other Reasons: When required to be brief, for example, we gain clarity about what we really mean -- or have to offer. As Mark Twain once wrote, in a slower-paced time, "I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Kare Anderson

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Bob Dylan

Fame is vanity's bait.

Toba Beta

It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.

S.M. Parker

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

Thomas Malory

Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He's a clever, prolific man; so are they. But he began with money and friends; he came from Oxford into the thick of advertised people; his name was mentioned in print six times a week before he had written a dozen articles. This kind of thing will become the rule. Men won't succeed in literature that they may get into society, but will get into society that they may succeed in literature.

George Gissing

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

Henry Fielding

A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.

Frank D. Gilroy

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

Rube Goldberg

To be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected.

Ogwo David Emenike

Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself must also die, but he who wins word fame lives forever

Hávamál - The sayings of the high one

Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye

Jason Letts

Innocent like the first dreamsA few words dropped on the paper;Contaminated they were by the surrounding air,Fame swarmed, naivety disappeared!

Neelam Saxena Chandra

So many stars in the sky, each unique and full of destiny. I wanted more than anything to be part of those stars.I never realized becoming one would destroy me.

Tracy Krimmer

My ‘Feed me Fame’ slogan during the first half course of my life was seen as ‘Treat me Lame’ by the people and it was not literal until I found a typo in one of my articles one day I wrote for a personal use.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

I'm the most famous person, problem is people don't know it yet…

Kevin Focke

Fame is such a waste. It can't even be recycled.

Sumana Roy

There are never any real stars in LA, but we’ve got a bunch of fake ones made out of brass and terrazzo. We embed them in the sidewalks outside of strip clubs and gift shops— Walk of Fame, walk of shame… walk of names we’re all destined to forget sooner or later.

Kris Kidd

Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.

Dejan Stojanovic

I understand that comes with the territory, and that celebrities have a contract with the public: they get to be the target of jealousy and criticism, and sometimes admiration, in exchange for money and recognition. But I let that contract run out a while ago. It is not my job to be pretty, or cute, or anything that someone else wants me to be.

Mara Wilson

The bigger the star, the bigger the target.

Michael Jackson

The ovation roared around him. He felt nothing in particular, hardly even the embarrassment he had feared. He had to go up again—this time without Fräulein Gasteiner, and it was a little peculiar to him to hear the noise of clapping hands and the loud shouts of "Bravo". He bowed several times, turned to the door and then, just as the clapping was getting weaker, he heard a voice from slightly behind him, or to the side—he couldn't quite tell—but the words were perfectly distinct, no matter how quietly they had been said: "Poor devil!" He wanted to look around, but he felt that that would seem absurd.

Arthur Schnitzler

Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?

Douglas Adams

When we were young, not so long agoFame was my favorite television show,Lydia brought out the dancer in you and me,There was Coco, Holly and Shorofsky,Glued to my set to watch them dance and actLeroy was my favorite dancer on that setCleo really won my heart; she later rose to “Fame”I will never forget Irene Cara’s song “Remember My Name

Charmaine J.Forde

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Bob Dylan

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Audrey Hepburn

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

J.G. Ballard

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Think champagne, drink champagne!

Ellen Dean

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.

Marty Rubin

What a waste of time to be posthumously famous.

Orson Scott Card

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

Gore Vidal

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Bruce Lee

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

Virginia Woolf

LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.

David Foster Wallace

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

Steven Pressfield

Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core..

Himmilicious

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.

Isabel Allende

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.

Cintra Wilson

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

Marvin Gaye

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