Quotes About Fame

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Success serves men as a pedestal. It makes them seem greater when not measured by reflection.

The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Norman Mailer in his writings is ultimately more concerned with success than with danger; danger is only a means to success.

If you try to find success in fame or in things, you will fail. If you find happiness is the process you will be a success.

We now live in a world where murderers and terrorists can cause death and mayhem, and when the time is "right" for them, they convert to normal human values, and become a global icon and saint!

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

It is not reputation, fame, success or religiosity that glorifies God, it's slavery.

You'll become that devil overnight, if you want to become that celebrity overnight.

Unsuccessful people are seduced by celebrity, name and fame.

The fame is birthed through the opposition. The success through the dynamism of fighting the despair. No fight, No lift!

Those who clamour for true greatness are not swayed by the glamour of its treasures

The aim and the result of faithful, fruitful, and fulfilling service is to make God famous.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

All this talk of oblivion, of wanting nothing and becoming nobody, seems rather contradictory from a Buddhist sense. The Buddha did all this himself and he became so much a nobody that he became famous, the biggest nobody of them all. And he will never disappear, because fame has made him immortal. But I do admire him for his attitude and discipline. He was a good Indian son.

the invention of celebrity, a concept made possible by new technologies for the cheap dissemination of images.

But Truman Capote wasn't interested in humanizing Gloria Vanderbilt, even while he floated in her majestic swimming pool. Instead, he wanted to resent her.

The crowds made it painfully obvious who was the new star of the show--the Princess of Wales. Charles was left apologizing for not having enough wives to go round. If he took one side of the street during a walkabout the crowd collectively groaned, it was his wife they had come to see. "I seem to do nothing but collect flowers these days," he said. "I know my role.

A mature childhood can be a recipe for an immature adulthood—a principle most publicly borne out by Michael Jackson.