Quotes About Fame

I'm not trying to have my whole life out there in the media.

I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

Being on TV has changed my life because I get lots of free stuff!

I feel like nowadays everyone perceives you the same way. You can't even have a private life away from your family; it's like everything is very hands-on!

I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

I believe in a glamorous life, and I live a glamorous life.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.

The world when I was 13 wasn't truly driven by tabloid magazines and social media and reality shows. I was able to have a little more of a private life.

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

but nothing serious happened until July 28, 1942, when Jones went into the studio to record an amusing anti-Nazi war ditty, Der Fuehrer's Face. Originally intended for the Walt Disney cartoon, Donald Duck in Axis Land, this became in Jones's hands a musical riot, rocketing the group to national stardom in less than a month. It demolished Hitler's claims to genetic superiority and established the raspberry as a respectable part of American radio.

And that goes to show that when you are great, you are just great, and even when you do something bad, you are still great.

Fame had been democratized. During most of history only members of the privileged classes had possessed a realistic opportunity to achieve majestic fame, but in the eighteenth century it has been demonstrated repeatedly, by men such as Franklin, for instance, that fame might be achieved by men born into a lesser social rank.

Someday they will name a big airport after me, until then I'll just eat this lovely sandwich.

Life, any life, would be well spent, under any conceivable conditions in bringing one human soul to know and love and serve God and His Son, and thereby securing for yourself at least one temple where your name and memory would be held for ever and for ever in affectionate praise – a regenerate heart in heaven. That fame will prove immortal, when all the poems and pyramids of earth have gone to dust.

She's the kind of person who either dies tragically at twenty-seven, like Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, or else grows up to win, like, the first-ever Nobel Prize for Awesome.

Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.

A Good Group A good group is better than a spectacular group. When leaders become superstars, the teacher outshines the teaching. Very few superstars are down-to-earth. Fame breeds fame, and before long they get carried away with themselves. Then they fly off center and crash. The wise leader settles for good work and then lets others have the floor. The leader does not take all the credit for what happens and has no need for fame. A moderate ego demonstrates wisdom.