Quotes About Fame

I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it.

Los católicos me ponen nervioso -dije-, porque juegan sucio. -¿Y los protestantes? -preguntó riendo. -Me irritan con su manoseo de las conciencias. -¿Y los ateos? -seguía riéndose. -Me aburren, porque siempre hablan de Dios. -¿Y qué es usted, pues? -Soy un payaso -dije-, de momento, superior a mi fama.

If you're not a sex symbol, you're in trouble.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

84, Charing Cross Road was no best seller, you understand; it didn't make me rich or famous. It just got me hundreds of letters and phone calls from people I never knew existed; it got me wonderful reviews; it restored a self-confidence and self-esteem I'd lost somewhere along the way, God knows how many years ago. It brought me to England. It changed my life.

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

More enduringly significant than the European influence of the Dictionary was its influence across the Atlantic. The American adoption of the Dictionary was a momentous event not just in its history, but in the history of lexicography. For Americans in the second half of the eighteenth century, Johnson was the seminal authority on language, and the subsequent development of American lexicography was coloured by his fame. America's

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

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

She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be keeping. I had not bothered to read her writings; her evisceration of other victims was thus unknown to me.

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

Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in 'E.T.' My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can't go anywhere.

It is as if I had been going downhill while I imagined I was going up. And that is really what it was. I was going up in public opinion, but to the same extent life was ebbing away from me. And now it is all done and there is only death.

He could not live, because all man's efforts, all his impulses to life, are only efforts to increase freedom. Wealth and poverty, fame and obscurity, power and subordination, strength and weakness, health and disease, culture and ignorance, work and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are only greater or lesser degrees of freedom. A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.

I believe I could have had a career in the music industry without 'X Factor ' but it was an amazing platform that propelled me to where I am now.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

I don't want to be a star, merely dying.

I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what they want is to see you fall.

All artists are terribly insecure people. They are desperate to be noticed.

Pursue excellence rather than fame -- it will get you farther faster, and will be way more satisfying.