Quotes About Fame

I'd arrived after the matinee and still remember an autograph hunter at the stagedoor asking me, 'Are you anybody?' I was tempted to answer him ontologically, but instead told him a white lie, and denied my own existence.)

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.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

When your're nothing, people will ignore you but when you're on top that's when everybody swear they know you.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet.

If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

Her cover version of Smells Like Teen Spirit is the reason Kurt killed himself.

We get death threats, kidnapping threats. The press criticizes my weight. It's just the English way.

I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies.

The best way to get praise is to die.

No matter how rich you become how famous or powerful when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

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

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.