Quotes About Fame

Amanda Werner and several other beautiful, elegant, conically breasted foreign ladies, from unspecified vaguely defined countries, plus a few bucolic co-called humorists, comprised Buster's perpetual core of repeats. Women like Amanda Werner never made movies, never appeared in plays; they lived out their queer, beautiful lives as guests on Buster's unending show, appearing, Isidore had once calculated, as much as seventy hours a week.

Siempre he creído que al menos la mitad de los personajes famosos de la historia no han existido.

He was liked when noticed, but not noticed much, and that did him no harm either.

In the world of the spirits your name is famous.

Waarom zou ik behoefte hebben aan een monument in mijn naam terwijl er op straat zo'n feestbanket rondloopt?

Modern culture's insatiable appetite for photo-ops keeps the not-so-accomplished Tinkerbelles from gracefully slipping into obscurity where they should have remained in the first place.

When everybody knows you, it is easy to think that nobody will ever really know you.

I wake up the next morning in Beyoncé's body.

I wake up the next morning in Beyoncé's body. Not the real Beyoncé. But a body remarkably like hers. All the curves in all the right places.

Look at Van Gogh - The guy could not sell one painting and now nobody can afford them

They're hungry for something they know nothing about, but we, we know all too well that the price of fame is the loss of privacy.

February 16, 1988 Reasons to live: 1. Christmas 2. The family beach trip 3. Writing a published book 4. Seeing my name in a magazine 5. Watching C. grow bald 6. Ronnie Ruedrich 7. Seeing Amy on TV 8. Other people's books 9. Outliving my enemies 10. Being interviewed by Terry Gross on "Fresh Air

I once considered suing Farrah Fawcett for invasion of privacy. Hardly a day passed when I didn't see her on a magazine cover, an ad, a poster. She was destroying my life, but now she's OK.

In place of bottom-of-the-bill humiliation and hand-to-mouth motel living, Roxy Music were now a major draw – and they lived up to it, insisting on staying only in plush hotels and grazing at restaurants with Michelin stars to spare.

People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the greatest trapeze artist ever, for his leotard. The idea is to give your name to something, like the zeppelin, the newton, Morse code, the chicuelina .

In the 1880s, though, Douglass's fame still had to be couched in the racialized claim that he represented "the one, and apparently only one, exception to the general laziness and ignorance of the black population in the midst of which he was born.

In The Past, Andy Warhol Will Be Psychic For 15 seconds

Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved.

Abba and me, we were the 70s.

Abroad in Hollywood, I am called Bling Bling Bappi.

I want my kids to be proud of their dad and not to go to school and hear abuse. One day they will read many things about me and I would like it to be about football.

It changed my life, but the best gift I have ever been given was the acceptance of the British public.

I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.