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Quotes About Fame

All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I've lived history. I've made history, and I know I'll have my place in history. That's not egoism.
~ John Diefenbaker
My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.
~ Cristiano Ronaldo
I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.
~ Soulja Boy
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
~ Christopher Golden
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
~ Cary Grant
I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.
~ Paula Abdul
Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
I predict that this will be the greatest book ever and it will sell more than any other book in history
~ Muhammad Ali
I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn't go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.
~ Brian Austin Green
I'm not here to make money, I'm here to make history.
~ Lenny Dykstra
I'd go down in history for being the most revealing nun ever!
~ Foxy Brown
Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
~ Dee Dee Myers
What want these outlaws conquerors should have but history's purchased page to call them great?
~ Lord Byron
I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
~ Pete Sampras
I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.
~ James Purdy
There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.
~ Terry Bozzio
The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.
~ John C. Maxwell
The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.
~ Judy LaMarsh
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.
~ Portia de Rossi
Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.
~ Emma Bunton
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.
~ Winona Ryder