Quotes About Fame

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

Townshend secretly longed to be rendered irrelevant, but his audience – which stretched further into the new generation than he liked to admit – would not let him go.

traditional values of his people, which made wealth a symbol for selfishness, and had caused a friend of his to deliberately stop winning rodeo competitions because he was getting unhealthily famous and therefore out of harmony.

I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

His name is David Bowie and he's nineteen. Would you like to meet him?

How does one get famous?" the Joxter asked. "Oh, just by doing something that nobody else has been able to do.

I believe it's a bore to be famous," said the Joxter. "Perhaps it's fun at first, but then I suppose you get used to it, and soon you're sick of it. Like on a merry-go-round.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

I'm as famous as I want to be.

But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.

So You Want to Be Famous

Right, she remembered. They don't know yet that I'm Important. They don't realize that soon everyone will know my name, or that I can save them from so many horrible things.

And now it was no longer a matter of people wilfully moving his electric torch, attempting to steal his drawing-pins, hiding his valuable rubber, malignantly dusting his mounds: now it was with a far deeper conviction, indeed with real distress, that he could say, "I should not wish my fame on to anyone, not even my worst enemy … it makes me physically ill … I protect myself as well as I can … I am barricaded behind double-locked doors day and night.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

pretty soon Lou Gehrig was poling them high, wide and handsome over the college fences. He hit seven home runs in one season, one of them the longest ever seen at South Field, and batted over .540. And he won himself a new name. They called him the "Babe Ruth of Columbia.

Legends simply don't live or die like men

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now. For if a man should have been content It was him; two acres of barley, One of potatoes, four bullocks, A milker, a slated farmhouse. He was last seen going out to plough On a March morning, bright and early. By noon Brownlee was famous; They had found all abandoned, with The last rig unbroken, his pair of black Horses, like man and wife, Shifting their weight from foot to Foot, and gazing into the future.

I never wanted to be Mickey Rourke. I don't think he did either.

People going to see the Mona Lisa, not to look at it, but because it's the Mona Lisa

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

The recluse, the shunner of fame, the "I just want to be alone" escapee—B. Traven was one, so was J. D. Salinger—seems perversely to invite intrusion.

The achievement of star status itself would seem to be based not on talent or good looks any more, but on the risks taken for the camera by a whole host of stuntmen brought in from the fairgrounds and circuses: trick riding, controlled falls, suspended accidents and suicidal exploits, leading, with the coming of 'live' transmission, to the 'confessional' TV programme, to the so-called reality show, which shades over, at the edges, into the snuff movie.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?' 'Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?