Fame Quotes

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.

Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game

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.

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

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

Most people don’t understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don’t get a chance to live their lives.

Be What You Want To Be, Not Who Others Wants To See

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon.

The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities’ uniform.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

When people don't gossip or talk about you, you are not making waves.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

How can I have my 15 minutes of fame when open mics only allow you to perform for 10 minutes.

He who advances without seeking fame, Who retreats without escaping blame, He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord, The man is a jewel of the Realm

Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!

I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.

The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.

Adlai Stevenson - a Henry James character in a Reader's Digest world.

Have regard for your name since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.

That sovereign of insufferables.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.

When I pass my name in such large letters I blush but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

After I am dead I would rather have men ask why Cato has no monument than why he had one.

Before such a prodigious career judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

To be somebody you must last.

The world like an accomplished hostess pays most attention to those whom it will soonest forget.

Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

Man's attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains - he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

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

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

No true and permanent Fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.