Quotes About Fame

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

I should think he'll be put in the papers for this," another exclaimed. "I hope so," West said, "if only because I know how he would loathe it.

Parry Gripp got famous for "It's Raining Tacos". It doesn't have to be that deep!

Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious. The name thing: I will always be L.L. Cool J.

Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

I have stood upon Achilles' tomb and heard Troy doubted, Time will doubt of Rome

What is the end of Fame? 't is but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour; For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their 'midnight taper,' To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.

Censure no more shall brand my humble name The child of passion and the fool of fame

History can only take things in the gross; But could we know them in detail, perchance In balancing the profit and the loss, War's merit it by no means might enhance, To waste so much gold for a little dross, As hath been done, mere conquest to advance. The drying up a single tear has more Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

To live outcast from your own kind, laughed at and mocked by most mortals. Living in a hovel, barely scraping by. Spurning wealth and fame. Why do you do it?" "I'm a disciple of the Tao of Peter Parker, obviously

Crap," I gasped. "I am not going to be known as the wizard who used his death curse thanks to a bunch of bitty nail guns.

Guys who get their name splashed all over history and folklore don't tend to be Boy Scout troop leaders.

He had the kind of face that belonged on billboards. Mine belonged on wanted posters.

Shakespeare and a very few others qualified but thousands and thousands of others dropped into the void without a sound.

People usually take decades to sort out their view of the universe, if they bother to sort at all. I did my sorting during one freakish summer in which i was ambushed by science, fame and suggestions of the divine.

Jenny Marzen is who again? Amy knew perfectly well who she was. Jenny Marzen was hot, hotter than Amy had ever been, and Jenny Marzen would be washed up in ten years and didn't know it. And Jenny is my number one fan? No, but she likes you. She read your stories in grad school. What is she, twelve? The point is, she really liked the article, and all that stuff about experience and news. Lex says she says you've got gravitas. That's a dirty lie. I never even had mono.

Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.