Quotes About Fame

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral. Curiosity seekers... coming to see if I am really Dead or just trying to make Trouble.

We're all going to die, but most of us won't go out in glory. Here's what matters, though, for men: not living, but living on in legend.

Famous people aren't magic. Despite their thoughts to the contrary.

She could have a cook come, or subscribe to a service, but she does the cooking herself. It's part of her claim to fame. Other wives look at her and wonder, and she wants it that way. She photographs and posts. She dresses for dinner. It is a competition, even though it pretends not to be.

home video starring her soon-to-be ex-husband and two of the female production assistants from his latest film had already been uploaded to the Internet. By the time she arrived at her Malibu home—she'd stopped once on the way from the set of her latest movie promo shoot to pick up dinner—the one-thousandth viewing had already been downloaded.

no fame is actually worth much now-a-days,—because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity,—it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

I wasn't a model that loved food. I was someone that loved food that started modeling.

Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

I got out of autobiography because my story is, I was famous, it was hard for me, I got into therapy. I had trouble with food, I got a nutritionist. There's no story there.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep?

I ain't no movie star, man. I'm a booty star.

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Being unknown for the right reasons is far greater than being famous for the wrong reasons.