Quotes About Fame

I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.

I don't need it but I still take the cars and the girls. Went from bout gettin' the money to about gettin' the world.

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I never had money, and I was very happy without it. When I die, my money's not gonna come with me. My movies will live on, for people to judge what I was as a person. I just want to stay curious.

And so these women, either misunderstanding or else scorning the influence that publicity has today acquired, are fashionable for the Queen of Spain, but unrecognized by the crowd, because the first knows and the second do not know who they are.

For just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future.

Men who believe that their work will last—as was the case with Elstir—form the habit of placing that work in a period when they themselves will have crumbled into dust. And thus, by obliging them to reflect on their own extinction, the thought of fame saddens them because it is inseparable from the thought of death

By virtue of his celebrity, he would be coddled by worshipful cops, pumped up by star-fucking attorneys, indulged by a spineless judge, and adored by jurors every bit as addled by racial hatred as their counterparts on the Rodney King jury. O. J. Simpson slaughtered two innocent people, and he walked free—right past the most massive and compelling body of physical evidence ever assembled against a criminal defendant. I am not bitter. I am angry.

If popular opinion and celebrity and fame and the politically correct view is going to be what really sways the jury, if the jury will disregard the law, disregard the evidence, and everyone expects it to happen, then why bother? Have

We lost because American justice is distorted by race. We lost because American justice is corrupted by celebrity.

All is ephemeral--fame and the famous as well.

He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names

well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone

It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.

With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you're in the public eye, it's just amplified, that's all.