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Quotes About Fame

I love being famous. It's almost like being white.
~ Chris Rock
I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have.
~ Elaine Stritch
A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.
~ Lauren Bacall
I've been singing since I was 16 because I love it - I wanted to be a singer, not a star. There's a difference between wanting to be famous and wanting to sing well.
~ Bonnie Tyler
Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.
~ Tyga
I love going to the beach. I like just walking around South Beach, but sometimes, when you're famous, it can be a little difficult.
~ Nicky Jam
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
~ Jimi Hendrix
I've always been a big fan of Mariah Carey. I think it's her personality. As much as she has an amazing voice, she has a crazy personality and I love the fact that she's not afraid to hide that.
~ Jessica Mauboy
We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don't normally talk about. Like, we'd love to get Kim Kardashian to talk to us about finance. She is a businesswoman, after all.
~ Jennifer Konner
I want to become a Hollywood film star. I genuinely would love to be in some movies.
~ James Arthur
I've wanted recognition I wanted success I wanted appreciation I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
~ Vidya Balan
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
~ Jimi Hendrix
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.
~ Janis Joplin
Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?
~ Mitch Albom
I earned a mater's degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Instead of chasing my own fame, I wrote about famous athletes chasing theirs.
~ Mitch Albom
I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?
~ Mitch Albom
Do you not want to rule the world, Nicator Seleucus? Do you not want your name whispered from Athens to the banks of the Indus? Hear the bards singing your fame for posterity and the cities minting your coins? The armies carrying your banners and the warriors piercing the clouds with your name? Do you not want all of that, Seleucus?
~ Moris Farhi
This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.
~ Nalini Singh
from Famous I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.
~ Naomi Wolf
I look up from my work, and see before me, less than a block away, the great mysterious "Broadway," the "Graveyard of Dead Hopes," and the "Front Porch of Opportunity." From all over the world people have come to Broadway, seeking fame, fortune, power, love, or whatever it is that human beings call success.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you attain fame and fortune, and do not attain gratitude along with it, the chances are that you will not enjoy that fame or that fortune.
~ Napoleon Hill
Why is it that when once a man begins to make money the whole world seems to beat a pathway to his door?
~ Napoleon Hill
they are listed in the approximate order of their importance and greatest usefulness: The motive of self-preservation The motive of financial gain The motive of love The motive of sexuality The motive of desire for power and fame The motive of fear The motive of revenge The motive of freedom (of body and mind) The motive of desire to create or build in thought or in material
~ Napoleon Hill