Quotes About Fame

On my tombstone, I want written, 'He never did 'Love Boat!

Shakespeare was a popular artist. Dickens was a popular artist. The artists I personally have always enjoyed the most are popular artists. I wish I were one - but I'm not. I'm more like Celine - writing away at books no one ever reads.

In this world, the more superficial, the more you will surely be loved:

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phoney tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

I will either be famous or infamous.

Grauman died of heart failure in the spring of 1950, died a bachelor, aged seventy-one, and the only people at his deathbed were his doctor, his secretary for the past twenty-one years, and the publicity chief of 20th Century—Fox. Long

Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].

But the thing with us was, we didn't really need anyone to make us world famous – we were already halfway there.

I don't think we [ Black Sabbath ] ever got a good review for anything we did. Which is why I never bother with reviews.

In 1968, John Osbourne was an up-and-coming rock 'n' roll star,' I would say in this fake movie-announcer voice as I wandered around the house. 'In 1969, he was an up-and-coming garbageman.'

It could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

I don't care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

My breasts have a career. I'm just tagging along.

Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.