Quotes About Fame

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

That's life when you're on the D-list.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.

I look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

Every single day, I get asked by people to do the face, so Im bringing it along with me now for the rest of my life.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

All the people in Star Trek will always be known as those characters. And what characters to have attached to your name in life! The show is such a phenomenon all over the world.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

I never had any real security in my life until I found the false security of stardom.

I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.

I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.

I've never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.