Quotes About Fame

We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame, our money, only a crust of bread; but it seems to me that for each of us going home must be like going to render an account.

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The time therefore that any man doth live, is but a little, and the place where he liveth, is but a very little corner of the earth, and the greatest fame that can remain of a man after his death, even that is but little, and that too, such as it is whilst it is, is by the succession of silly mortal men preserved, who likewise shall shortly die, and even whiles they live know not what in very deed they themselves are: and much less can know one, who long before is dead and gone.

Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

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

Know what 'celebrity' is kid? Being paid to bullshit the rest of your natural life.

An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man.

Out of obscurity I came. To obscurity I can return.

Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;

Popular! In America, what else matters?

How do you expect to keep our seeing each other a secret? You've been all over the news here for years. People will recognize you wherever you go. I won't be recognized, but you will. You're America's corporate sex symbol; you're the one whose motto is If it moves, take it to bed. Matt and Meredith

I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2 000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift.

[Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

Der Ruhm mag schwinden, aber die Vergessenheit währt ewig.

General Douglas MacArthur was the most brilliant, most important, and most valuable military leader in American history—at least that's what Douglas MacArthur thought. When asked by a proper British gentlewoman if he had ever met the famous general, Dwight D. Eisenhower—himself about to march into history—supposedly replied, "Not only have I met him, ma'am; I studied dramatics under him for five years in Washington and four years in the Philippines.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.

Nothing recedes like success.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

It's like Tom Waits said," Petty remarks. "'I'm an artist, but I'm still in show business.

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

His [the author's] renown… has been purchased, not by deeds of violence and blood, but by the diligent dispensation of pleasure.