Quotes About Fame

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame. It's easier to get busted in the bedroom with the faculty chairman's wife than it is to finish that dissertation on the metaphysics of motley in the novellas of Joseph Conrad.

We get ourselves in trouble because it's a cheap way to get attention. Trouble is a faux form of fame.

Springsteen and Julianne Phillips were married. The story moved from Patti Scialfa's early career to her current state of bliss and ended with gushings of the "they were clearly meant for each other" variety. Oh yeah, right. Like that marriage would last. I

John Barleycorn's final words: "I've had more friends in private and more foes in public than any other man in America.

A portrait that declines to name its subject becomes complicit, if inadvertendy in the cult of celebrity that has fueled an insatiable appetite for the opposite sort of photograph: to grant only the famous their names demotes the rest to representative instances of their occupations, their ethnicities, their plights.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

It's just cool to me that Bon Jovi knows my name!

I'm a drag queen. I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

My famous friend Cal, not recognized in any café or caffè famous but recognized in one or two cafés or caffès and the reading room of the 42nd Street library famous—writerly anti-nonfamous. I've never liked Cal's writing, but I've always liked him—the both of them like family. He's been living in Iowa, teaching on fellowship. All of Iowa must be campuses and crops.

Yo soy Etchenike. Si le hubiera dicho que era Robert Redford o el mismísimo San Puta, el efecto no habría sido mayor.

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.

Herhalde ünlü olabilmek için kötü bir çocukluk geçirmek gerekiyor diye düÅŸündü Anna.

All the famous people had had an awful time. One of them had had a drunken father. Another had a stammer. Another had to wash hundreds of dirty bottles. They had all had what was called a difficult childhood. Clearly you had to have one if you wanted to become famous.

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Highly sensitive men who are famous include Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein, and Jim Carrey.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.