Quotes About Fame

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

rare indeed was the soul who remained unaffected by his own public image.

To be known for one's saddest story is not the road to notoriety anyone would willingly choose.

gets as much attention as Bond

Rupert Grint

Viktor Krum

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

A celebrity once-removed, driving his groupies agog, but then not flaunting it, and not asking for it, either.

At the hospital, I was asked for my autograph; I'm right-handed and couldn't sign. So I was asked for photos. While hooked up to IV lines.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or how powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will sill pretty much depend on the weather.

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

Wat nu weer?... Millennia lang zie ik niemand en nu lijk ik opeens weer populair te zijn. - Mars Ultor

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

In Surprised by Joy Lewis notes how his father, Albert, was fond of telling anecdotes about Sir John Mahaffy, anecdotes which Lewis later (at Oxford) found attached to Benjamin Jowett. This, alas, is the fate of any great figure: to serve as a convenient magnet for stories or quotations that other people want to perpetuate, however inaccurately.

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.

Trump lived, like Hulk Hogan, as a real-life fictional character.

Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collectively mind decides who is going to rise and who is going to fall, who lives and who dies. If you stay around long enough in the media eye, your fate, like that of a banana republic despot, is often an unkind one of a law Hillary Clinton was not able to circumvent. The media was the last word.

And then there was the harsh fact that the world of Manhattan and particular its living voice, the media, seemed to cruelly reject them. The media long ago turned on Donald Trump as a wannabe and lightweight, and wrote him off for that ultimate sin—anyway, the ultimate sin in media terms—of trying to curry favor with the media too much. His fame, such as it was, was actually reverse fame—he was famous for being infamous. It was joke fame.

Media is personal. It is a series of blood scores. The media in its often collective mind decides who is going to rise and who is going to fall, who lives and who dies.

in a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.