Quotes About Fame

He remembered that envy is the concomitant of glory, and thus, the more renowned he became, the greater was his caution and circumspection.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

Que hablen de uno, aunque sea bien

Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous.

Beyond this, most of the Tier One captains had zero interest in the trappings of fame. They didn't pursue the captaincy for the prestige it conveyed—if they pursued it at all. In 2004, when Carles Puyol's teammates unanimously elected him captain, his was the only dissenting vote. "I thought it was more ethical to vote for others," he told me.

I didn't set out to be famous if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.

All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

She gained fame in 1895 when she became the third woman to scale the Matterhorn—and the second to do so in trousers, at a time when women could be arrested for wearing them in public.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.'

Darling, I have enemies I've never met. that's fame!

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

By giving good fame your beauty and nobility to such friends you sicken me with pain Blame you? Swollen Have your fill of them For my thinking it is poorly done and all night I understand baseness Other minds the blessed