Quotes About Fame

he had died as late as the New Year of 1939, he would, as Paul Addison says, 'perhaps be remembered today as the most illustrious and interesting failure in twentieth-century British politics'. Certainly until his apotheosis he was more often seen as an 'interesting failure' than as the subject for a study in greatness.

A la gloria de los más famosos se adscribe siempre algo de la miopía de los admiradores.

Some are born great; some achieve greatness, and others have it pinned on them.

Publicity overrates everything. Picasso's overrated. I'm overrated. Even Jack Benny's overrated.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

Drink,Drugs and shagging models. The rest I just wasted.' George Best on where his millions went.

If I'd been born ugly, you'd never have heard of Pelé.

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

George Clooney

We are currently living in terrifying times which could become tragic overnight. Moreover, you are Russian and Jewish, and it could be that people who do not know you—though they must be few and far between given your fame as a writer—might cause problems for you, also

éclat. Sadie had éclat; or so the public thought, though personally

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

fama de tortuoso.

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.

Miss Rose has decided that Eliza would have learning, dowry, and fame as a beauty even if she was not one, because it was her view that beauty is a question of style. Any woman who conducts herself with the queenly assurance of a belle, she maintained, will convince everyone that she is beautiful.

New Zealand has this funny attitude towards celebrities where we're not so impressed. We are secretly impressed, but we never want to show it, so we're not sycophantic about it.

In Australia and New Zealand I had big, big success.

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it.

Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.

I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the bill in Denver, and by the time we got to New York we were second to Iron Butterfly, and they didn't want to go on!

If you look at the guys in the '70s, like Led Zeppelin, they had bigger planes than we do, they had more money. But they weren't singing about it.