Quotes About Fame

As children, Grace and I liked to pretend our life was a movie projected onto a giant screen before an audience who watched, rapt, as we ate our pork chops and finished our homework and went to sleep side by side in our twin beds, Grace rising to shut the closet door if I left it open. Gradually, mysteriously, that fantasy evolved into a vocation--I came to imagine my future not in terms of anything I might do or accomplish, but the notoriety that would follow.

Doesn't having been a model make you a little . . . visible?' 'Not at all,' I said. 'Exactly the opposite. People who've known me for years stare at me like they've never seen me before.' The smile was hurting my face.

The album's called A to B, right?" Bosco said. "And that's the question I want to hit straight on: how did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about? Let's not pretend it didn't happen.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who's been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

In the past six weeks, I'd been shot at, blown up, kidnapped, and paraded around as the living, breathing embodiment of Cinderella stories. To the world, I was a scandal, a mystery, a curiosity, a fantasy.

Actively hating your newfound popularity with a fiery passion can really take a lot out off you

Whenever they were together, fanfares cleared the way before them and they picked up Paris in one hand and put it calmly in their pocket. (64)

Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn; And lust of fame was but a dream that vanished with the morn:

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Fame is a bee. It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

Si la fama me perteneciera, no podría escapar de ella –y si no, no me alcanzaría el día más largo para cazarla –y la aprobación de mi Perro me abandonaría –entonces– Mi Rango de Descalza es mejor–

Fame is the one that does not stay It's occupant must die Or out of sight of estimate Ascend incessantly Or be that most insolvent thing A Lightning in the Germ Electrical the embryo But we demand the Flame

Get a load of this one... I heard that she actually thought paparazzi was the last name of one particular Italian photographer. Apparently she said something like, 'Who is this Paparazzi guy and why didn't they arrest him years ago after he killed Princess Diana?

Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.

But as time went by, fewer camera crews turned up at the gates each morning. After all, how many hours of drooling can an audience be expected to sit through? Gradually the LEP crews were downsized from a dozen to six and finally to a single officer per shift. Where could Opal Koboi go? the

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Mr. Charismo? Surely not Tibor Charismo, the most famous man in all of England.

None of those who have been raised to a loftier height by riches and honours is really great.

the most famous people in the world today don't address the world's most pressing needs. Rather, they distract us from them.They provide amusement, not sustenance. They