Quotes About Fame

I don't wanna hear nobody complain that they're getting paid all this money and people won't leave them alone. It's part of it.

From "Rock Star" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. What happens to a rock star When he gets too old to perform When his public has faded Like the strength his voice once had? What happens to a rock star When he's treated like yesterday's news And the only reviews that he gets are ones that are bad?

Sara suddenly had celebrity. Funny thing was, the sun didn't rise any later. The cow didn't milk herself, the weeds didn't stop growing, the tub of wash water didn't get any lighter, and corn bread didn't miraculously appear on plates every night. Day to day, Sara's life didn't change one whit. At least not right away.

The Carters won fame—if not fortune—because they could recast the traditional music of rural America for a modern audience. And like their music, the Carters themselves had to negotiate the gap between the insular culture of preindustrial Appalachia and the newly modern America.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

The power and influence of a movie star is curious: I didn't ask for it or take it; people gave it to me. Simply because you're a movie star, people empower you with special rights and privileges.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, ain't listening.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening!

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I didn't tell him that be on top is to worry. Once you climb to the peak of the mountain, the whole world can take a shot. I know the Singer know that plenty people hate him, but I wonder if he know what shape that hate take.

God. God. God. You know what's God's problem, the man say. I mean, Jehovah, Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, Jah, whatever bullshit you want to call him— —Don't blaspheme against His Imperial Majesty. —But the thing about God, is that he needs the fame, you know? Fine, the attention, the notice, the recognition. He said it himself, in all your ways acknowledge me. If you stop paying attention or call his name out he kinda ceases to exist. —Brethren—

Tom says to Richard: You asked what I missed about the job. And that's it. But his tone had changed. The vanished fame, the lost acclaim, the old success.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Destiny Wallace was just fourteen years old but she looked at least nineteen or twenty - and that was in her school uniform. Annie couldn't help but wonder if evolution was to blame, because most of the girls in this particular group all looked like clones of each other. Well, or of Kim Kardashian or another famous person, famous for no other reason that that were famous for basically doing fuck-all constructive.

He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you.

In some ways that fight gave me more respect around the world and helped me be even more popular because so many people felt my pain and saw that I was robbed.

the idea of being spoken about by posterity pushes me to some sort of hope for immortality

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.