Quotes About Fame

Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Not all important people are famous, and not all famous people are important. Let

People recognize me, call me Ron, and ask me questions. It's really cool and weird as well.

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

The lesser the talent, the longer they spent on the red carpet.

All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.

True greatness is often unrecognized.

Foolishly perhaps, but determined none the less, I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. That goal is the real goal as far as I am concerned…

He liked to collect celebrities.

I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

Can you still have any famous last words if you're somebody nobody knows?

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?

Fame is just popularity on a higher level.

No one hath come into the world for a continuance save him who leaveth behind him a good name.*

Ich habe noch nie einen Schriftsteller kennengelernt, der nicht eitel und nicht egozentrisch gewesen wäre – es sei denn, es war ein besonders schlechter Autor.

Desnudas de su corteza contempla las causas: los significados de las acciones, qué es el sufrimiento, qué es el placer, qué es la muerte, qué es la fama, quién es el culpable de tu propia falta de tiempo, cómo nadie es impedido por otro, que todo es suposición[482].

Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.

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.

life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion.

Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of a stranger. The only fame after death is oblivion.