Quotes About Fame

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

When Babe Ruth was asked in 1930 how he felt about making more money that the President of the United States, he replied 'I had a better year than he (Herbert Hoover) did.' When Tom Snyder was asked in 1977 how he felt about making more money per year than President Carter, he replied, 'I have to go out and buy my own 707.'

Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know and not be known, live in a city.

None think the great unhappy but the great.

Being popular is important. Otherwise, people might not like you.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame; But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of things as They Are!

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'

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When it came to being a legend, all it took was one person to recognize that you were epic. That was it.

I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of sand

What difference does it make after all?—anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.