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Quotes About Fame

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.
~ Andy Warhol
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
~ Lord Byron
To many fame comes too late.
~ Luis de Camoens
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
~ Socrates
Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.
~ JeanJacques Rousseau
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~ Voltaire
In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.
~ Zimmermann
Today a man discovered gold and fame, Another flew the stormy seas; Another set an unarmed world aflame, One found the germ of a disease. But what high fates my path attend: For I-today-I found a friend.
~ Helen Barker Parker
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
~ Thomas Gray
A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
~ Rhodesian proverb
I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
~ Marie Bashkirtseff
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
~ Will Rogers
Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
I have a very intrusive life, I guess you could say. I think that a lot of people know too much about me, truthfully.
~ Madison Beer
Me and Kylie are sisters, but not everything we can always do together. She's not trying to be a model. She's trying to be more like a personality. We're trying to kind of separate ourselves - not in a bad way!
~ Kendall Jenner
I am trying to make my peace with the paparazzi.
~ Hilaria Baldwin
I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're actually trying to do.
~ Charlie Hunnam
I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
~ Brad Pitt
It's not easy trying to navigate your internal world in the public eye.
~ Natasha Lyonne
I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.
~ Dolly Parton