Quotes About Fame

The Sullivans are not well known for their generosity.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

Bridget has vowed to never, ever date a celebrity (or quasi-celebrity) again. 'Unless it's, like, James Dean back from the dead,' she says. 'Well, that's sensible,' I say.

A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!

A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble!

Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

Greatness is to stay humble when the whole world calls you great!

My name will live forever, but I should not care about this at all, because I am not my name and my name is not me!

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

I think it's better to be a legend while ye're alive to enjoy it.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

I haven't paid for anything since I became famous.

Well don't demand the spotlight if you can't handle the attention.

The perfect embodiment of the courtier-poet was a heroic nobleman born in one of the great houses of England, Penshurst Place, in 1554, and dead a mere thirty-one years later on a battlefield fighting the Spanish in the Netherlands: Sir Philip Sidney. He achieved lasting fame for giving his water bottle to another wounded soldier with the words "Thy need is greater than mine.

More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

All the while, an intensely personal real-time documentary was being shot, with the help of seventy-five CBS cameras, about a man, private by nature but famous by deed, trying to reclaim a lost life while starting a new one, and doing so with millions of people watching.

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.