Quotes About Fame

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

Yet during a twenty-year period there wasn't an American alive who wouldn't have recognized Jimmy Hoffa immediately, the way Tony Soprano is recognized today. The vast majority of Americans would have known him by the sound of his voice alone. From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles. Jimmy

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

Of present fame think little, and of future less the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame to copy faults is want of sense.

A posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime)

Posthumously, everyone loves us. (A titre posthume, - Tout le monde nous aime.)

The infant phenomenon.

For however I may in former days as a young man have liked the notice which the being in a great man's train secures one, now that I have a fixed character of my own, obscurity is far the most agreeable.

When you consider all the stars I have managed, mere submarines make me smile.

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.

Classics are books that everybody talks about, and nobody reads.

CELEBRITY. One who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. To patch-work learned quotations are allied; Both strive to make our poverty our pride.

Radio is for those not famous, or infamous, enough to make The Tube.

I glanced at the business card before tucking it away: Deyan Dembeliev, telephone… Just a name and a phone number. Only extremely famous or extremely modest people could use such cards. Demby was not the latter.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

You're right, Mal, you and Erebus both. My father made me for immortality and the galaxy should know of me. Ten thousand years from now I want my name to be known all across the heavens." - Warmaster Horus

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

What was the point of being selfless and brave if no one knew about it?

The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such things were nearly impossible.

As Paddy Murray wrote in the Evening Herald: "It didn't even rain. It wouldn't have dared. They don't call Bruce Springsteen the Boss for nothing.