Quotes About Fame

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Dying can be quite the career move for a young poet.

When desire's sold for freedom/and need exchanged for fame/those choices made in ignorance/turn to bloodstained dreams of shame.

not know or had scarcely heard of, like Ingrid Bergman or Marilyn Monroe.

You can't make love to your fame. Even though some people try.

Power wasn't a matter of job titles, after all. Power was a matter of vision, persuasiveness, freedom of movement, fame, influence. The figurehead stands at the front, after all, pointing the way.

I suppose that now you'll want to sleep with me?Alas big guy I'm taken.' 'No. you're not,'Regin said. 'Am too,' Nix said. 'Mike Rowe, the star of Dirty Jobs, is soon to realize I'm his beloved.' She sighed dreamily. 'He even got his lawyers to contact me on the pretext of a' she made air quotes 'restraining order.

Mari was what was known as an underachiever, which even an underachiever knew was sociology code for overfailer. She was famous in the Lore for the simple fact that one day she might be worth being famous. All hype-no substance. That was Mari.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags.

For me, when you're casting known talent, you're not just casting their performances. You're casting the public's relationship with them, their public images to a degree.

I don't feel like I have a super straightforward relationship with the idea of fame. It makes me sort of level things out in my own brain almost immediately when I meet someone.

I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.

It's a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they're dead.

When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.