Quotes About Fame

You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR

Fame does not make you happy. It just makes you look in the mirror a lot, worrying about how you look today for your audience.

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

I mean People come up and ask for autographs or say hi but they wont bug you.

By creating compelling content, you can become a celebrity.

I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.

I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

I want fame now, not after I'm dead.

With a modest amount of looks and talent and more than a modicum of serendipity, I've managed to stretch my 15 minutes of fame into more than half a century of good fortune.

Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness?

For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself.

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

The epic poet is all taken up with what he called klea andron, "glorious deeds of men," of individual heroes; and what these heroes themselves ardently long and pray for is just this glory, this personal distinction, this deathless fame for their great deeds.

'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.

It's interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids' friends know me from 'Wedding Crashers ' and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it's cool. What goes around comes around.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life.

don't remember when Berkshire started growing to a point at which he was in a different league," said Emilie. "I think my parents were really private. They didn't want publicity. My dad was a creature of habit so everything was exactly the same. We never had a feeling we were growing up in some rich household.