Quotes About Fame

There's no point in success if you don't let it go to your head. That's what it's for.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Success is when your name is in everything but the telephone directory.

Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.

It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.

Oh, well, I'd like to have commercial success. I guess.

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame

She wanted to be known, but no one knew her.

It is the need to be remembered that has caused most of the trouble in the world

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.

The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material.

Conocido, s. Persona a quien conocemos lo bastante para pedirle dinero prestado, pero no lo suficiente para prestarle. Grado de amistad que llamamos superficial cuando su objeto es pobre y oscuro, e íntimo cuando es rico y famoso.

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered. It is through struggle, not ease, that fame and honour are won. It is through conflict, not peace, that wealth and power are gained.

Men must sometimes do what they do not like if they are to be remembered.

No corpses, no glory.

Ljudi ponekad moraju raditi i nešto što im se ne svi?a ako žele ostati zapam?eni. Kroz muke, ne kroz lagodnost, sti?u se slava i ?ast. Kroz konflikte, ne kroz mir, sti?u se bogatstvo i mo?.

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I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

It's tricky. I've never been standing at the top of the tree with tons of money thrown at me. I've never really had a profile. So in a way I have this 'nothing to lose' attitude.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.