Quotes About Fame

People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.

Manuel Benítez «El Cordobés» dijo a su hermana en sus comienzos en el mundo del toro, cuando aún era un rapaz sin un duro: «O triunfo o llevarás luto por mí». Aquel primerizo con los estoques se convirtió, andando el tiempo, en el mayor torero de su época. El Cordobés era más toro que los toros

La vida de Manuel Benítez El Cordobés ha sido una de las más grandes epopeyas históricas mundiales

God likes to make people. Great people out of common people, strong people out of week people, famous people out of the unknown people, good people are bad people. God likes to make people. That's an obsession with God, one from which He will never change.

My story, is how a kid that's born into really destitute poverty on a little dirt road in Florida winds up in one of the largest bands in history.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.

There are five stages in the life of an actor: Who's Mary Astor? Get me Mary Astor. Get me a Mary Astor type. Get me a young Mary Astor. Who's Mary Astor?

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

I've spent years when I've not been in the limelight at all and I'm perfectly happy living my life without being swooped on by paparazzi.

I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

Life is more than sunglasses and hit movies. Reality - that's the main event.

Attention is something I've learned to ignore. This is what I do: I live my life and they document it.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.