Quotes About Fame

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

I want to be famous in my home.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didnt have to be a gigolo. In real life.

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.

Their settlement was famous for its dissolving architecture; at any moment a balcony might disappear and drop people to their deaths. This did not happen so often that it was monotonous, but often enough to make living there exciting.

Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

You can sit around and have a broken heart any old time. Rock stardom happens only once in a lifetime.

America has a relationship with Bobby and Whitney.

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

He scurried off faster than if he'd woken up from a one-night stand with Lindsay Lohan.

In the end, at least, I got what I wanted - a stage to stand on, an audience to applaud. For all of Paris watches me now. They talk of nothing else. In the Assembly, in the coffeehouses, in the laundries and factories and market stalls, they talk of the fireworks. The broadsheets are full of my doings, every one. No player has ever managed that, not even the great Talma himself. But there is only one in the audience I care about now. Only one.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.