Quotes About Fame

To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.

I don't really consider myself to be famous.

No author was immune from having his own ideas and words quoted back to him favorably. Authors were, at heart, no matter how much they blustered or how suavely they carried themselves, insecure creatures with sensitive egos, as delicate in the constitution as movie stars, only much poorer and less glamorous.

But, like superheroes, they would not want to keep themselves a secret for long. How could you be a superhero if no one knew you existed?

All anyone ever wants is to be recognized and remembered.

They send him away and no one ever sees him again. That's what happens to writers who put their names on things.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

There was enough reason for it too, as the whole of France was shaken. Certainly in our eyes the election and its results and its representatives are only symbols. But what it proves once more is that worldly ambition and fame pass away, but the human heart beats the same to this day, in as perfect sympathy with the past of our buried forefathers as with the generation to come.

My mom's gonna be the biggest star - mark my words right now!

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also.

An old story, but the glory of it is forever.

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

This was how Dinocrates, recommended only by his good looks and dignified carriage, came to be so famous. But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health.

People care about none but only those well-known.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

I may want to sleep with Miss America, but I have no wish to hear her talk about herself and her family.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.