Quotes About Fame

I love pop culture. I love gossiping about all the different stars.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

The love of popularity holds you in a vice.

Y'all really think Ms. Shakur, or Ms. Wallace, Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis Wouldn't exchange the love and fame Attached to their loved ones' names Just to have 'em still alive in their arms?

I would love to just talk to Paul McCartney. That would be incredible, but that is definitely like a dream.

I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood.

I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

I love it when celebrities fall apart.

I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

we all recognize a likeness of Shakespeare the instant we see one, and yet we don't really know what he looked like. It is like this with nearly every aspect of his life and character: He is at once the best known and least known of figures.

The one thing he didn't do was discover the comet that bears his name.

In Iowa, we were not used to seeing the houses of well-known people on account of there were no well-known people in Iowa.

If it was his goal in life to make as little impression as possible upon history, he achieved it gloriously.

Would Giovanni da Verrazano think being eaten by cannibals a reasonable price to pay for having his name attached to a toll bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island? I suspect not.

Later, after Rule became famous, she stopped writing those kind of books and started writing about a different kind of true-crime case. She started writing about real-life gothic soap operas, dream-come-true husbands who turn out to have a dark past and crap. I don't have any interest in those crimes or those books, which I think are written for women, and I haven't been able to read anything she's written in 25 years, although I keep trying.

New Rule: The Jacksons must trot out at least one family member who doesn't make us all ask, What went on in that house?

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press

I had the white gowns and the white shoes. And every night they'd bring me the white gardenias and the white junk. When I was on, I was on and nobody gave me any trouble. No cops, no Treasury agents, nobody. I got into trouble when I tried to get off.

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.