Quotes About Fame

A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me.

Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

he became very rich and prosperous, and was henceforth known as My Lord Bag of Rice.

America and fame: they are equally useful if you want freedom from your mother.

Sometimes I think there must be two Yogi Berras. There is the one who grew up on the Hill in St, Louis, who's been playing ball for the Yankees for fourteen years, has a beautiful wife named Carmen and three boys, Larry, Timmy, and Dale, and lives in a nice house in Montclair, N. J. That's me. Then there's the one you read about in the papers who is a kind of a comic-strip character, like Li'l Abner or Joe Palooka.

Boy, Whitey, I hope I never see my name up there. To Whitey Ford during scoreboard tribute on opening day to recently deceased Yankees.

People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

The very thing that makes a star spectacular is the same thing that strikes him from the world at large and makes him an outsider.

No matter how serious the obligation, a star is more of a star if he never arrives. Absence is his forte. The question of whether he'll show up gives the event a ceaseless undercurrent of suspense. But a true star never arrives. Showing up is for second-rate actors who need to seek attention.

Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live on for ever through the silver screen. Allen answered that 'I'd rather live on in my apartment.

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.

I'd become a cult figure to a certain extent because of my movies, but unfortunately it was because of how bad they were!

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music.

Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!