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Quotes About Fame

Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.
~ Sarah Dessen
Incluso ahora que estaba muerto, era un artista de un solo éxito. O dos, supongo, si me cuento a mí.
~ Sarah Dessen
You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are.
~ Sarah Dessen
That's the thing, though. You always think you want to be noticed. Until you are
~ Sarah Dessen
It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think — to say it in your own words, without compromise.
~ Saul Bellow
It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think—to say it in your own words, without compromise.
~ Saul Bellow
We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...
~ Scott Westerfeld
And here's what I realized: You Sly Girls don't cry when you watch the big-face parties on the feeds, just because you weren't invited. You don't stay friends with people you hate, just to bump your face rank. And even though nobody knows what you're doing out here, you don't feel invisible at all. Do you? No one answered, but they were listening. Fame is radically stupid, that's all. So I want to try something else.
~ Scott Westerfeld
True, the Immortals appointed Fame, and Fate, As the two ambiguous, doubtful companions
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am but an ordinary Man. The Times alone have destined me to Fame–and even these have not been able to give me, much. . . . Yet some great Events, some cutting Expressions, some mean Hypocrisies, have at Times, thrown this Assemblage of Sloth, Sleep, and littleness into Rage a little like a Lion.
~ John Adams
Let the cymbals of popularity tinkle still. Let the butterflies of fame glitter with their wings. I shall envy neither their music nor their colors.
~ John Adams
Sayyida Nafisah was famed throughout
~ John Baldock
We call it Albion. It is the English-speaking world. The one where they kill babies in the womb, right?" And here I was hoping we'd be famous for the Moonshot, or democracy, or the Beatles, or something.
~ John C. Wright
Landscape is my mistress - t'is to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to man
~ John Constable
I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.
~ John Cusack
Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
~ John Cusack
I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.
~ John Cusack
If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.
~ John Cusack
I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later.
~ John Cusack
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
~ John Dos Passos
Honor is but an empty bubble.
~ John Dryden
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
~ Christian Bale
Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.
~ Demi Lovato