Quotes About Fame

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

Some people have suggested that we have some young male models on the show. But I think that's a terrible idea. I don't want some young guy back here attracting all the attention. I want people looking at me.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Some, like Chaplin, Polanski and Michael Jackson, found teenage companions in middle age, trying to retrieve or reconfigure a childhood they never had.

Nobody has won thirty games in a season since Denny McLain did it in 1968. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas, broken as many team rules, or played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards that year.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

I made so many B pictures I began to get fan mail from hornets...and for me that was an improvement.

They gave me star treatment because I was making a lot of money. But I was just as good when I was poor.

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

they were now calling themselves the Beatles.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don't even get printed.

Elvis's fame happened to him—not entirely unbidden, but in proportions he had not imagined or sought. He was a dreamer, aspiring to stardom. He wanted to be big.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

A buddha is an idle person. He doesn't run around after fortune and fame.

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I think that the camera loves peopke who...loathe the camera (Bono)

Fame is a currency. I want to spend mine on the right stuff.

Radar, his youngest brother, who appeared on the cover of two of U2's early albums, Boy and War.

The man who is known, and has the confidence of the public, can, if he does not allow himself to be fooled by his own popularity, accomplish a great deal more, perform a much greater public service, than the man whose name is unknown.

The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.

Fame is a bitch, man.