Quotes About Fame

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

I saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. As I watched them singing, it hit me: This is my ticket out. Here was the vehicle I could use to rise out of misery, to become famous, to be looked up to, to be liked, to be admired, to be envied.

This is, in fact, the subject of his House of Fame, a poem of his midcareer written, among other motives, to twit his illustrious predecessor Dante as a fame-seeking windbag.

Wayne? When I'm famous I'm not gonna speak to anybody—not even the band.' It was a strange thing to say—it stuck in my head." Only then did he reflect how David was always "friendly. But I suppose he was never really giving much away.

just as it had in 1930s Hollywood: "It was, I'll do anything, play anything, say anything, wear anything to become a star," says David's friend Scott Richardson, "and there's nothing wrong with that. And there was a tremendous hunger on the part of the audience for it too. It was that moment in time.

I've had cameos on some cool shows.

Mrs. Astor had long held that artists of any ilk - painters, authors, actors and the like - merit no recognition unless safely dead, and that meeting them risks both needless mental fatigue and the possibility of social contamination.

I saw him on the cover of Life magazine and heard about the wars he covered bravely and the other feats - the world-class fishing, the big-game hunting in Africa, the drinking enough to embalm a man twice his size.The myth he was creating out of his own life was big enough to take it for a time - but under this, I knew he was still lonely.

It was the end of Ernest's struggle with apprenticeship, and an end to other things as well. He would never again be unknown. We would never again be this unhappy.

He would never again be unknown. We would never again be this happy.

Beautiful women would sing his name,

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

singing and dancing more than nudity. For many years, a 54-year-old woman who went by the stage name Mistinguett had reigned over the Casino as its chief performer, but Varna believed a staged rivalry between the two women would attract more patrons.

discovered, she had tired of what she was doing. Her contract with Derval for the Folies performances was coming to an end. Pepito decided to focus on making her as famous as possible, and he arranged a long tour to 25 countries in Europe and South America. Before starting the tour,

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

Till the Future daresForget the Past, his fate and fame shall beAn echo and a light unto eternity!