Quotes About Fame

Who's Norma Jean Mortenson?" "Marilyn Monroe!" "Who's Marilyn Monroe?" "Sex!

My celebrity memoir title: It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times.

Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.

I'm sorry to say that people have written fifty or sixty books about me. I haven't read a single one of them, since I know too much of the subject, and I'm sick and tired of it.

Todo hombre memorable corre el albur de ser amonedado en anécdotas ['Every memorable man runs the risk of being minted in anecdotes']

One of the many distinctions between the celebrity and the hero, he said, is that one lives for self while the other acts to redeem society.

I suppose that everyone of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Fame, ain't it a bitch

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Thomas Edison was a graduate of Cooper Union. Like Otis, he is principally famous for things he didn't do. He didn't invent electricity, or the lightbulb, the phonograph or the movies. These misappropriations didn't bother him much: he didn't correct folk. What he was good at, what he really knew, was patents.

There are celebrities in New York that no one's heard of in New Jersey. It is interested and influenced by itself.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

I to my perils Of cheat and charmer Came clad in armour By stars benign. Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine. The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

But how many senators, representatives, and justices are on our currency, have monuments on the National Mall, have their names on towns, cities, counties, states, or figure prominently in Hollywood movies, television, or cable series? Congress and the Supreme Court can be in or out of session. The president is the Energizer Bunnyâ"¢ of the American government.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

What shall I do to be forever known,And make the age to come my own?

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

Certainly there'd been posters around for Sun Moon's movies, but they must not have seemed to apply to him. Now

I love attention. I can't stand not having it. It just has to be the right kind.