Quotes About Fame

Short then is the time which every man lives, and small the nook of the earth where he lives; and short too the longest posthumous fame...

So discard all else and secure these few things only. remind yourself too that each of us lives only in the present moment, a mere fragment of time; the rest is life past or uncertain future. Sure, life is a small thing, and small the cranny of the earth in which we live it; small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who will quickly die, and have no knowledge event of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

For is there anything so absurd as to delight in many inanimate things, like public office, fame, and stately buildings, or dress and personal adornment, and to take little or no delight in a sentient being endowed with virtue and capable of loving, and — if I may so term it — of loving back?

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.

I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.

In ten years, you'll be on a stamp / where anyone at all can lick you.

There must be a certain freedom in not having a good name to lose.

Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

Appreciate what everybody does, especially those doing what you are also doing. Don't crave for attention and fame. It will come automatically when your brand is well situated.

There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a moustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn't really much confusion

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer.

I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again.

Every time I give a straight answer and read it in a magazine, I say, 'Ouch.' One day I'd like to talk to a psychoanalyst about why celebrities reveal so much of themselves in interviews.

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Oh every time I close my eyes I see my name in shining lights

Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway.

I Google myself pretty often. I usually find something about All Time Low or my break-up with Holly [Madison].

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.