Quotes About Fame

Well, be proud of it, then! And remember the James family in the Civil War. William and Henry ducked the draft and became famous writers, while their two fighting brothers were badly wounded and led wretched postwar lives!

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

He wanted desperately to be an actor. The pursuit of fame and fortune far outweighed his ability to experience joy. He thought he could be acceptable and worthwhile only if he had fame. I taught him to love and accept himself, and he got well. He is now grown up and appears on Broadway with regularity. As he learned to experience the joy of being himself, the parts in plays opened up for him.

Irenée Calfat was a potter. She took hunks of clay and turned them into exquisite works. She'd pioneered a new way to glaze her works and was now sought out by potters worldwide. Of course, after they'd made the pilgrimage to Irenée Calfat's studio in St Rémy and spent five minutes with the Goddess of Mud, they knew they'd made a mistake. She was one of the most self absorbed and petty people on the face of this earth

I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

A name illustrious and revered by nations.

I want to be famous everywhere.

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Many people think of a narcissist as someone who perhaps names hotels after himself or always wants to be in the spotlight—maybe a character on reality TV.

Eloquence in public assemblies is not the surest road to fame and preferment, at least unless it be used with great caution, very rarely, and with great reserve.

A man will only be as long as his life but his name will be for all time.

And, indeed, it may well be admitted that the factors which have helped to make the modern world are mainly a desire for fame, a desire for knowledge, and a desire for riches; and woe betide the nation that forgets the first and second of these factors, and loses its soul in concentration upon the last of them.

rey del antiguo Israel, declaró: «De más estima es el buen nombre que las muchas riquezas, y la buena fama más que la plata y el oro».2 Pero la buena reputación es el reflejo del carácter de la persona. Si la reputación es como el oro, entonces tener integridad es como ser dueño de la mina. Preocúpese menos por lo que otros piensan y préstele atención a su carácter interno.

His beginnings were obscure, and, as everyone knows, he got rich enough to be an ambassador.

British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists. But some people, operating at higher levels of mental health, pursue activities because they actually love them.