Quotes About Fame

My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.

I wish I was in print. It will be odd a year or so from now when Scottie assures her friends I was an author and finds that no book is procurable.

I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Calm because I'm unknown, And myself because I'm calm, I want to fill my days With wanting nothing from them. For those whom wealth touches, Gold irritates the skin. For those on whom fame blows, Life fogs over. On those for whom happiness Is their sun, night will fall. But those who hope for nothing Are glad for whatever comes.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

Compra-se a glória com desgraça.

Todo es absurdo. Éste empeña su vida en ganar un dinero que guarda, y no tiene hijos a quien dejárselo ni esperanza de que el cielo le reserve alguna transcendencia por ese dinero. Aquél empeña su esfuerzo en adquirir una fama para después de muerto, y no cree en la supervivencia que le permita conocer su fama.

In every case, the nobler the genius, the less noble the fate. A small genius gets fame, a great genius gets obloquy, a greater genius gets despair; a god gets crucifixion.

I, however, who in this transitory life am nothing, can enjoy the thought of the future reading this very page, since I do actually write it; I can take pride – like a father in his son – in the fame I will have, since at least I have something that could bring me fame.

everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2. another puts all his efforts into becoming famous so that he'll b remembered once dead, yet he doesn't believe in a survival of the soul that would give him knowledge of that fame. yet another wears himself out looking 4 things he doesn't even like.

Are your friends as good as MY friends? I can discern the nod of of assent but doubt it. My own friends are far better, they are famous people and they are all dead. Who, you may ask, are those friends of mine, and why are they dead? It is a fair question. They are dead because, had they lived, they would have died anyway from extreme old age and decrepitude.

When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.

I watch the stock-car races sometimes but you don't see anything but cars. I know about Fireball Roberts though and I watched an interview with Tiny Lunn. He is a huge dead-serious innocent-faced boy who must have made it big, he had just won the one in Jacksonville when I saw him but he never smiled once.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I want to be famous everywhere.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

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

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be.

I mean if anyone's comfortable being famous, they're a psychopath.