Quotes About Fame

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

Therefore the fame of her excellence will never perish, and the immortals will fashion among earthly men a gracious song in honor of faithful Penelope.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Les actrices payent aussi les éloges, mais les plus habiles payent les critiques, le silence est ce qu'elles redoutent le plus. Aussi une critique, faite pour être rétorquée ailleurs, vaut-elle mieux et se paye-t-elle plus cher qu'un éloge tout sec, oublié le lendemain. La polémique, mon cher, est le piédestal des célébrités. A

I begin to perceive," said La Briere, smiling, "that there is something poisonous in glory, as there is in certain dazzling flowers.

Since the days of old, the wise and the good Have been left alone in their solitude, While merry drinkers have achieved enviable fame.

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Bonnie and her mum are both members of Amnesty International," said Abigail. "Of course they are," murmured Madeline. This must be how Jennifer Aniston feels, thought Madeline, whenever she hears about Angelina and Brad adopting another orphan or two.

Over the years, 'organized' seemed to have become her most defining characteristic. It was like she was a minor celebrity with this one claim to fame. It was funny how once it became a thing that her family and friends commented on and teased her about, it seemed to perpetuate itself, so that her life was now extraordinarily well organized...

Now I get it why you're so popular. You've always been adored. You expect to be adored and so you are.

the leap into heaven, into fame, into legend—then the fall back to earth (guernseyed Icarus) to the whistle's shrill tweet.

I cried all the way to the bank [response to negative reviews].

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

Truely cold, shawty need a movie role.

Since I be on TV I turn it on see me, hey Im so cool even I wanna be me.

Make the girls say my name like roll call.

Everybody know, I don't do no promoting. I don't ever have to promote nothing, that's the beauty of Lil Wayne.

They say I'm the Hottest MC in the Game. If you label me that, I will live up to it. Trust me.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

I love MySpace it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.