Quotes About Fame

Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.

I never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy trying to become known to realize the advantages of obscurity.

I never knew Kurt to be suicidal. I just knew that he was going through a really tough time.

It seems everyone in the world is now a potential member of the paparazzi. Most of the time people ask if they can take a picture with their mobiles but increasingly they don't bother to ask.

You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Because A Walk To Remember had come out and it had made money and I got a lot of congratulations at that time as it happens out there.

I spend a lot of time in American Apparel.

What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

After that I was free to enjoy the rest of my unforgettable vacation, and now that I had seen the life of the stars up close, I was cured once and for all of my delusions of fame.

La riqueza, la fama, todo se puede perder, pero la dicha en el corazón a lo sumo puede velarse, y siempre, mientras vivas, volverá a hacerte feliz.

In one Way or another, the day would come when my name would be a household word and my picture would occupy a place of honour in the memory book of every damp-eyed film fan

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writer who tend to be shy, get to stay at home and still be public.

Being a writer is part of a noble tradition, as is being a musician – the last egalitarian and open associations. No matter what happens in terms of fame and fortune, dedication to writing is a marching-step forward from where you were before, when you didn't care about reaching out to the world, when you weren't hoping to contribute, when you were just standing there doing some job into which you had fallen.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere. While others who have something to say or who want to be effectual, like musicians or baseball players or politicians, have to get out there in front of people, writers, who tend to be shy, get to stay home and still be public.

It does not matter what the media say, so long as they say something with one's name in it.

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid. - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Can't always be the living legend."-Louis

If I failed tonight, I would be another legend.

And barking famous, these friends are

Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame is the axman of further dismemberment. —Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown

Whatever Hiro said about fame protecting her, it felt safer next to Frizz than under the eyes of a million people.