Quotes About Fame

I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

You count the years until you get a varsity jersey, then you're a hero, an idol, a cocky bastard because in this town you can do no wrong. You win and win and you're the king of your own little world, then poof, it's gone. You play your last game and everybody cries. You can't believe it's over. Then another team comes right behind you and you're forgotten.

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

All lawyers knew of him, and when Lacy had decided to sue over the staged car wreck that injured her and killed Hugo Hatch, her former colleague, she really had no choice.

Plenty of local hacks think they're famous. They smile from billboards as they beg for your bankruptcy and swagger in television ads as they seem deeply concerned about your personal injuries, but they're forced to pay for their own publicity.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

Most of you know who I am, he whispered. Duncan was sleep, but Helen overheard him; she reached across the aisle and held Garp's hand. Thousands of feet above sea level, T. S. Garp cried in the airplane that was bringing him home to be famous in his violent country.

I keep saying it and saying it. They publish your novel, they make your screenplay—these books and movies go away. You take your bad reviews with the good ones, or you win an Oscar; whatever happens, it doesn't stay. But

Writers who have any audience have more readers than they know. Juan Diego was more famous than he thought.

Aunque todo lo demás falle, siempre podemos asegurarnos la inmortalidad cometiendo algún error espectacular.

Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

This is a mere matter of the moment. I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.

Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

More popular than Jesus More popular than Jesus is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music. Wikipedia

When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

It is often difficult to watch yourself onscreen, especially 60-feet high. As an actor, it is an uncomfortable experience.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.