Quotes About Fame

I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace - not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.

Reflected glory is just as good as the real thing

invisible and yet having a spotlight on

You are only remembered and become famous because of your mistakes. —DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.

At the loss of praise and fame, my own mind appears to me just like a child who wails in distress when its sand castle is destroyed.

New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag ' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'

You can't control the paparazzi. But if you go to Coachella you're going to get photographed. Whereas if you're at home, walking down the street you probably won't. It's something I've learnt to navigate my way around but I try to keep my private life private.

I don't see myself as famous at all so I'm continuing my life as normal.

I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I've always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it.

My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave--also the paths of ignominy, profligacy and skullduggery.

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

I think being on a TV show is amazing but also, people get kind of used to seeing you a certain way and so it becomes a challenge to break free from that in a way.

I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.

It said to only quote notable people—am I not notable enough for Goodreads?

Fame is a food that dead men eat—I have no stomach for such meat.

Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).

fame gives you everything you never wanted.

What I'd really like to say about stardom is it gave me everything i never wanted.

If this incomplete ayaan hirsi wants fame sooo much then she shouldn't use religion as a base to be known. Some people justify their in justifications by selling their souls to the devil, ayaan I'm sure u have taken the time to read the bible. Do tell me it's stance on woman comparing to men...