Quotes About Fame

Maybe you heard of me. I used to be famous, in a roundabout fashion.

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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.

You Are famous and it's confirmed, but not everyone is a fan.

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

All celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.

If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.

All celebrated people lose dignity upon close inspection.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Yet it wasn't until she was dead—until the New York Times saw fit to give her an obituary—that Rick realized just how far her story had traveled, how powerful the simple act of storytelling could be. Maybe it didn't matter if he never wrote his book about O-Six; maybe, in a way, he already had.

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

she's sure she's going to be the next J. K. Rowling.

Jim Morrison had star quality and he's dead. Star quality's no good to you when you're dead.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

There are victories whose glory lies only in the fact that they are known to those who win them.

Quelle che tu chiami figure di merda sono sprazzi di splendore mediatico che danno lustro al personaggio e che ti rendono più umano e simpatico. Se non esistono più regole etiche ed estetiche le figure di merda decadono di conseguenza.

Consequently, Sylvia Plath's elevated position among literary figures has extolled her from the depths of depression to the heights of heavenly poetic bliss."