Quotes About Fame

The sprinter unwisely indulges his arrogance against the marathon runner, and likewise, parents who encourage their children's narcissism do them no favours. It is best to accomplish something before becoming famous, because if the fame comes first, it often precludes accomplishment...You don't build a career by playing Carnegie Hall. You build a career and then Carnegie Hall will invite you to play.

In the future, everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

I am a deeply superficial person.

James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.

I think it would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes. ~Andy Warhol 1968 He revised it in 1979: In 15 minutes, everybody will be famous.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Women love me for the man I'm not.

And for Kevin Costner,, he'll have a big career.

Sean's (Penn) is going to be the new Dustin Hoffman. He'll be around a long time.

I told Jack I loved Body Heat. Because he's out here in the sticks and so he doesn't see anything. I said it was a real hot movie. He kept asking about the girl, Kathleen Turner, and I said that she'd never be remembered.

If, for whatever wild reason, I ever wind up as a celebrity, don't let Mary Anne near me.

So they found out all these exciting things about me, like: I drove an old pickup truck with cages in the back for my bird dogs, or I wore a Wal-Mart ball cap, or I got my hair cut at the barbershop just off the town square—somebody with a telephoto lens even snuck up and took a picture of me in the barber chair, and it was in newspapers all over the country.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

It is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

Every man, who proposes to grow eminent by learning, should carry in his mind, at once, the difficulty of excellence, and the force of industry; and remember that fame is not conferred but as the recompense of labour, and that labour, vigorously continued, has not often failed of its reward.

His fame is great; and it will, we have no doubt, be lasting; but it is fame of a peculiar kind, and indeed marvellously resembles infamy. We remember no other case in which the world has made so great a distinction between a book and its author. In general, the book and the author are considered as one. To admire the book is to admire the author. The case of Boswell is an exception, we think the only exception, to this rule.

It is too well known, that the second George never was an Augustus to learning or genius.

The thing about capturing a prize fish is that everyone admires the fish, and soon forgets about the fisherman. You love the thing that makes you special, then hate it because it's the thing that makes you special.

While basking in the limelight, one sacrificed privacy. Anonymity has distinct advantages. Keeping to the background afforded one much more maneuverability and, thereby, power.

That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.