Quotes About Fame

Everything looks good when everybody loves you.

Not everyone believes in fame during his/her lifetime. But being a good memory and a good example to everybody is worth more than what fame can offer.

There are still many affluent and famous people who believe in the simplicity of life. They live in peace without wanting it or needing it.

You may not be known or popular all over the world, but by doing honorable acts and decent gestures each day you are already famous.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.

Tom Stoppard was refreshingly candid when, after the successful premiere of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, he was asked what the play was about: "It's about to make me a lot of money.

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to suffer from it.

It was being published, even after his death, that brought Franz Kafka alive: otherwise he would have been just a man who got nowhere with women.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Scandalocity is defined as "the speed at which scandal measured in velocity can turn you into a star.

Es gibt im Leben nur drei große Ereignisse: den Tod, die Berühmtheit oder die Liebe. Mein lieber blauer Leutnant, welches von den dreien wird mir wohl als erstes auf den Kopf oder ins Herz fallen?

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.

Only falsehood wins renown, not understanding!

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said:"His sins were scarlet, but his books were read."

And so it came to pass, as you would imagine, since only the successful prophets are remembered.

A pottery outside Paris was turning out his picture on thick glazed crockery in a strident yellow and blue. This is what happens when you become a public figure; people eat their dinners off you.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

The brightest stars burn out the fastest

Men den, som skall bli diktare, är ingenting alls annat än ett åtlöje för Gud och människor, förrän han redan blivit erkänd och berömd. Därför måste han under alla de långa läroåren hänga en falsk skylt över sin dörr och låtsas sysselsätta sig med något som människorna anser aktningsvärt.