Quotes About Fame

Did Revere make history or did Longfellow?

When social critics deplore the materialism of our time and its preoccupation with money, fame, and superficial values, they overlook that the driving force behind the changes we have seen -- one of the greatest periods of change in history -- has been thought. It wasn't big bucks or social status that drove this change. It was, and is, the force of the play of the mind. As materialistic as we may be, playful thinking got us here.

WHEN DODSWORTH OPENED two months later, there were lines around the block at New York's Rivoli Theatre. Mary snuck into a theater in Los Angeles to catch it. As soon as the audience heard her voice offscreen they burst into applause. She said it was one of the most satisfying moments in her life.

She was a great actress, and dammit—I want to see her on a goddam postage stamp!!

One to destroy, is murder by the law;And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;To murder thousands takes a specious name,War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Every charity, donation, help, prayer, whatever such other humanitarian matters and needs, carry selfishness, interests, and expectations, whether for fame, self-generosity, reward, power, or heaven.

From celebrities to all dimensions of subjects, each one of those wishes, desires, and expects, to qualify the Nobel Prize, which carries opulence charming, and fame. However, such ones, fail to realize that, it is just a Nobel Prize, not Noble Prize.

Naturally, I stay an excellent friend of mine than whoever else since I feel the joy of fame with notability, no matter whatever it levels and ranges; it needs not a certificate.

The majority of journalists, politicians, celebrities, and such others suffer from incurable egoism.

The vote is a democracy; it doesn't establish notability; it gives power. Factually, the number of votes may give fame; however, it doesn't show notability; whereas, literary, academic, and such figures' reviews establish notability as its precise context.

The worst and legalized dishonesty is: Promote your writing and work with own finance, and risk to catch fame, and sign to let the promoter to earn money upon that, which you envisage and deserve.

The local newspaper got wind of it and published an article titled "Born to Be Mild" in the Sunday Lifestyle section, with a big photo of us.

What a fuss for a name: famous or not, it's only a ribbon tied around a sack randomly filled with blood, flesh, words, shit, and petty thoughts.

Eh, she said once, what a fuss for a name: famous or not, it's only a ribbon tied around a sack randomly filled with blood, flesh, words, shit, and petty thoughts. She mocked me at length on that point: I untie the ribbon—Elena Greco—and the sack stays there, it functions just the same, haphazardly, of course, without virtues or vices, until it breaks.

I didn't know the map of prestige.

Foi o primeiro em absoluto a me mostrar, na prática, como é confortável chegar a um ambiente entranho, potencialmente hostil, e descobrir que você foi precedida de uma boa fama, que não precisa fazer nada para ser aceita, que seu nome já é conhecido, que já se sabe bastante sobre você, que são os outros, os estranhos, que devem se esforçar para caírem em suas graças, e não você na deles.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

The Buddha, for his part, talks about the 'eight worldly conditions' that 'keep the world turning around', and around which the world turns. 'What eight? Gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame, pleasure and pain'.