Quotes About Fame

My name must taste good 'cause it's always in your mouth.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.

Fame is a fickle food - Upon a shifting plate

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965, my baseball card came out with no picture.

A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul.

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?

The working men, I'll go by and they'll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, 'Oh, it's a girl. She's got blond hair and she's not out of shape ' and then they say, 'Gosh, it's Marilyn Monroe!'

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.