Quotes About Fame

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

this: You tell me then that I must perish like the flowers that I cherish. Nothing remaining of my name, nothing remembered of my fame? But the gardens I planted still are young— the songs I sang will still be sung!

I became famous so quickly and so young - it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious, but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

The American bartender of the 'Gay Nineties' was an institution. His fame spread to the four corners of the globe, and visitors to our shores from the continent bowed before his skill in concocting tempting mixtures of 'liquid lightening.' He was and still is in a class by himself. We may go to Europe for our chefs, but Europe comes to us for its bartenders," wrote W. C. Whitfield in his 1939 book Just Cocktails.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

You must be out of your mind. These boys are going to explode. I am completely confident that one day they will be bigger than Elvis Presley.

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Their humility stopped them from seeking fame or fortune because their love of country sparked their exploits.

I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.

I don't talk about who I'm dating because when you break up, you wind up reliving it in the media.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

I find it so funny that people find me so interesting.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

The majority of famous men are not taken unawares by fame. On the wall of their minds hangs their own vision of what they ought to be and can be. They are not surprised by success when it comes; because they have seen it coming, and planned out its coming, in their dreams.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

My Definite Chief Aim I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return, I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue ' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.

It didn't take me long to figure it out: I didn't want to meet the Beatles. I wanted to BE the Beatles.

DNA, natural ability, study of craft, development of and devotion to an aesthetic philosophy, naked desire for . . . fame? . . . love? . . . admiration? . . . attention? . . . women? . . . sex? . . . and oh, yeah . . . a buck. Then . . . if you want to take it all the way out to the end of the night, a furious fire in the hole that just . . . don't . . . quit . . . burning.

The Internet of Things is supposed to be invisible to all but its corporate and military masters. But the Internet itself is hugely obvious and famous—because, even though the Internet is also corporate and military in its origins, for about a decade the Internet was all anybody talked about.