Quotes About Fame

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

There are five stages to an actor's career: who is Herschel Bernardi? get me Herschel Bernardi; get me a Herschel Bernardi type; get me a young Herschel Bernardi; and who is Herschel Bernardi?

On stage I make love to twenty-five thousand people; then I go home alone.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

About the only person we ever heard of that wasn't spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Best-sellerism is the star system of the book world. A (best-seller) is a celebrity among books. It is a book known primarily (sometimes exclusively) for its well-knownness.

A good title is the title of a successful book.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

I am a deeply superficial person.

When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to,' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No, it is better not', he said, 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

A sign of a celebrity is often that his name is worth more than his services.