Quotes About Fame

It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

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

People ask me if I am going on making cheesecake pictures now that I'm a star. My answer is that as long as there is a boy in Korea who wants a pinup of me, I'll go on posing for them.

I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.

Sure I love Goldie. How could you not love Goldie? Everyone loves Goldie. I love her, and I hope our love will continue, but I don't want to give an I-love-Goldie-Hawn interview.

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

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

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.

I want to thank my parents for letting me play baseball. I'm thankful I had baseball knuckles and couldn't become a dentist...I got $2,100 a year when I started in the big league, and they get more money now. ...I chased the balls that Babe Ruth hit.

Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work toward those goals, the more society assigns us worth.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

As Pat and I made travel plans, we simply couldn't believe Diana had remembered us and invited us to what was already being called "the wedding of the century.

Trutwib went on speaking, her voice picked up volume and power until I heard her prediction ring out, her words that changed everything. "The one who lives under your wing, my lady, shall grow and grow until she outshines you. You will die, forgotten and obscure, and she shall blaze like the sun.

You are truly mature if you can listen lightly, as if to an echo, to criticism or to vile blasphemy, no matter how unbearable, without reacting. As long as you are not attached to fame, glory, reputation, or social status, there is no need to suffer. A person without attachments has neither lifelong enemies to overthrow nor any need to flatter people in power.

Cowards don't make history, brave people do.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.