Quotes About Fame

The worst fate in the world for a man who yearns fame, glory, and, of course, power is to be ignored.

Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence

You don't count. You're not what they're looking for. You're not on TV.

We have a tendency in this country to fall in love with noted personalities, like the drunks who throw their arms around a stranger's neck, only to push him away again after a while, for equally obscure reasons.

there was a sudden burst in their popularity.

Today, kids want to be famous athletes, movie stars, rock stars, beauty queens, or CEOs because that is where the fame, money, and prestige are. That is the reason it is so hard to motivate kids in school today. They know that professional success is no longer solely linked to academic success

After all, it was nice to be loved than to be rich and admired and famous.

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Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere.

We're meant to read the lives of important people as if they never bothered with breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or took a coffee break, or stopped for a hot dog on the street, or wandered downstairs for a few spoonfuls of chocolate pudding in the middle of the night.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be us.

Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.

That's the deal with pop stars; you're expected to share them with the masses. I hated the idea.

She was a Celebrity Fucker.

It's so sad, you get less starstruck when you start realizing that it's not a big deal.

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

It's sad when you see someone do really well and then you just don't hear about them anymore.

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

There are times, where I am sad for the public. I am sad, because they do not get to know the brilliance that is Sebastian Janikowski.

Children, to be illustrious is sad.

I love going out and it is a bit sad when the photographers stop asking you for your picture.

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It's really sad, because that's what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.