Quotes About Fame

I have consumed more drink than the first one hundred men you will pass on the street or meet in the madhouse. I scratch my belly and dream of the albatross. I have joined the great drunks of the centuries: Li Po, Toulouse-Lautrec, Crane, Faulkner. I have been selected but by whom?

Some people don't like anybody who is famous. Some people don't like anybody who isn't.

the trouble with the famous is that they must be replaced and they can never quite be replaced, and that gives us this unique sadness.

we have everything and we have nothing. some do it well enough for a while and then give way. fame gets them or disgust or age or lack of proper diet or ink across the eyes or children in college or new cars or broken backs while skiing in Switzerland or new politics or new wives or just natural change and decay—

y la fama y el amor nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

no wiser than those pigs are worldly men who compete, and grudge, and struggle with each other, which shall get most money, most fame, most power over their fellow-men.

ELVIS & MARILYN: The deader they get - the more money they make.

Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

The whole ecosystem of celebrity has broken down for writers. If you go back to the '50s, '60s, and '70s, writers were on TV a lot, and they were allowed to misbehave a lot.

The biggest misconception my whole life is that I'm rich, that I had all this money from my dad, which I did not.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

People will come up, and they'll talk about 'Misery.' But a lot of people will talk about 'Waterboy.'

'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.'

I'm very used to being misquoted.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

Sometimes being away from TV for four months or six months or whatever it's been can really help you. People miss you and are happy to see you back. On the other hand, people can forget about you.

Fame is sexy. And women are meant to find men who are funny sexy. But not me. Absolutely not me. Clearly I just missed the sexy bit.

I absolutely love 'Big Brother' and 'Celebrity Big Brother' and have never missed a series - but I would never appear on them.

I thought after that fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, if this was supposed to be fight of the decade, then people must be missing me a lot more.