Quotes About Fame

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

I think the greatest goal I've ever scored is the one against Liverpool. It was amazing for me, and it really made my name in the Manchester team.

In Argentina, everyone knows Manchester United, but the only ones who've heard of Fiorentina are people who follow me.

Manchester United is a huge club. When I was young, it was a name I used to hear and it was a name I used to see on computer games and I used to play with the team.

Anybody that was famous found their way to the Playboy Mansion. It was exciting for me. But I didn't know half of them!

By the mid-'80s, I was an actor. I was never super-famous, but I was definitely on the map.

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

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

When your surname is Smith, you need to make very sure everyone knows just which Smith you are.

One of the risks of appearing in public is the likelihood of being photographed.

I have written a number of short biographical studies of insignificant personages from literary history. My interest has always been in writing biographies of the also-rans: people who lived in the shadow of fame in their own lifetime and who, since their death, have sunk into profound obscurity.

Is he one of them now? Frustrated, stuck, self-watching, looking for a means of connection, a way to break out. After Oswald, men in America are no longer required to lead lives of quiet desperation. You apply for a credit card, buy a handgun, travel through cities, suburbs and shopping malls, anonymous, anonymous, looking for a chance to take a shot at the first puffy empty famous face, just to let people know there is someone out there who reads the papers.

When we reached the sidewalk, a lovely teen-age girl wearing pink eyelashes asked me for my autograph. I don't know who you are, she said, but I'm sure you must be somebody.

The life of a star of this type and magnitude. Isn't the life structured to cut you down early? This is the point, isn't it? There are rules, guidelines. If you don't have the grace and wit to die early, you are forced to vanish, to hide as if in shame and apology.

Everything we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. The cults of the famous and the dead.

But the phenomenon of reputation is a delicate thing. A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Sex is what you can get. For some people, for most people it's the most important thing they can get without being born rich or famous or stealing.

I longed for glory. I remember nothing of my childhood more than my fervor for tales of glory and my plans to travel the world in quest of fame.

Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich." (Trump, Donald, R-N.Y., billionaire real estate mogul; reality show hot air buffoon; ABC News with Ashleigh Banfield; 3/17/2011.)

Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich." (Trump, Donald, R-N.Y.; ABC News with Ashleigh Banfield; 3/17/2011.)

4Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.

That's why I refused. But after the media

being famous is a thing that depends greatly on position and opportunity. It is not enough to possess gifts and powers: there must also be the means of exhibiting them. For want of opportunity some of the greatest men perhaps are buried in obscurity.

I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.