Quotes About Fame

Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.

I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory that stands out is that Michael, as cute and wide-eyed as an 11-year-old could be, was eager to get through the interview so he could watch cartoons before having to go to bed.

If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

All any girl really wants is just love and a man. But what man can put up with a rock-n-roll star?

You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to Man.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.