Quotes About Fame

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen

Trilby's face appeared on dolls, fans, writing paper, puzzles, and there were ice cream bars made in the shape of her feet.

The music world is where child prodigies go to die.

There have been a lot of stories written about me, some of them fantastically distorted.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

When I come to reflect on the subject, in no country have I received such honors or been so esteemed as in Italy, and nothing contributes more to a man's fame than to have written Italian operas, and especially for Naples.

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

Things like 'Lucky Man' were never written to even be a record, let alone a hit record.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

I grew up in a family where no one had written a newspaper or magazine article about anybody in my family for a hundred years, right? Then, all of a sudden, we're getting one millennium's worth of media attention in six months.

It's certainly not easy for an outsider to make a mark because they don't know anyone. You don't get written about as nobody knows who you are. So, you don't get that much attention when you are doing something compared to people that the media is aware of.

I don't enjoy public attention. I don't like being recognised, being clicked, or being written about. But then it is destiny. I am just going with the flow.

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared.

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I love fame. I love being written about. I don't really mind if people think I'm a bad writer, if they don't understand my weird Instagram performance art or they find my long captions annoying. That's part of the package of being in the public eye, and honestly I find it exhilarating.

I really can't make no wrong moves out here, because just as quick as you can get people to love you, you can get people to hate you.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

Public image can change at the drop of a hat. One person can be a national hero and a month later because he wore the wrong colour he's violently hated so it just all depends.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

I am not saying that those who crave for conventional stardom are wrong in their aspirations. But that's not what I want.

I didn't even really know who Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were, and my parents kept trying to tell me, 'Noah, what is wrong with you!? This is the biggest actor and director in all of Hollywood!' And then I was like, 'Who cares? Whatever.' I was nine; I didn't know anything.