Quotes About Fame

Everyone can have a bad period in their life, but we are famous; we have a lot of things. Sometimes people think we are not human, with no feelings, with no problems.

One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?

But I didn't know where I wanted to go. Or what I wanted to do when I got there. I had dreams, but they were vague things with no real substance. I wanted to be famous, or really rich, or wildly successful, but that was as far as the dream went. My whole life was a fill-in-the-blank.

already a national institution: a cartoon cad

Nada é tão débil e instável quanto a fama da potência não assente na própria força

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

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

I guess you had to lose So the rest of us could win Your only fame and fortune has left you And he's holding this paper and pen.

From fame to infamy is a beaten road. —FRANCIS QUARLES All the world doth practice stage-playing. —MONTAIGNE

Fame all depends on the ground you're standing on...

You know her, then?

No woman will ever satisfy me. I know that now, and I would never try to deny it. But this is actually okay, because I will never satisfy a woman, either. Should I be writing such thoughts? Perhaps not. Perhaps it's a bad idea. I can definitely foresee a scenario where that first paragraph could come back to haunt me, especially if I somehow became marginally famous.

It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.

There are very few Americans who honestly care who Lindsay Lohan is dating. But it's still information they need to have. This is because those people care about something else entirely; they're worried about the possibility of everyone else understanding something that they're missing.

Being a sexual icon is sort of like being the front man for an Orange County punk band: As soon as you can explain why you're necessary, you're over.

It did not feel outrageous, for example, that Pauly Shore spent much of the nineties as a bankable movie star, regardless of how baffling that notion strikes anyone who missed it entirely.

While accepting the award for Best Director, Cameron quoted the most embarrassing line of dialogue from his own script: "I'm the king of the world!" Had this come from almost any other nineties figure, that would have seemed like self-deprecating irony. Coming from Cameron, it was not.

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.

The Disco Group ABBA": They were beards and teeth and natural breasts and whiteness. I

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

Tyler lies back and asks, If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing? I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, Clawing at the lid of her coffin.

Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.

If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.