Quotes About Fame

It is what one really owns in the end, a name." -Istak

I Want To Be Known For My Hits, Not Just My Misses.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

Most of the time fame is nothing more than a product of commerce, and has nothing to do with literary quality.

We knew the time would come that we'd have to step down because we'd been winning Oscars for 15 years. I discovered this one day when I got home, my mother was reading a newspaper and she said, 'Again? What are you doing in the papers?' And I realized if my mother thought that of me, what would my enemies think?

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

They have never heard of Lindsay Lohan. They are blessed.

One of the few, the immortal namesThat were not born to die.

I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

So many stars lose their way, and with success become more neurotic, not less so.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars, politicians, people who have tremendous power and affluence. It's not in my DNA, but certainly I have been exposed to it.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

For someone who's had the level of success I've had, there's been very little critical review of my work, which is pretty fascinating.

We have come to worship things, status, fame, popularity, money, security. Anything that comes between God and ourselves is idolatry. Jesus demands Lordship over all such things.

Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personalities in America. Afterward she took me aside and told of the emptiness in her life. "My beauty is gone," she said, "I am getting old, I'm living on alcohol, and I have nothing to live for.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].

But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.