Quotes About Fame

The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

Men, all men, were always trying to get hold of me, you know.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

Real friendships among men are so rare that when they occur they are famous.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

Britney Spears has shoulders like a man.

Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.

Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

People would say to me, "Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney", and I'd say: "I wish I had his money!"

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

It is the success which makes great men.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don't ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

Man, I've got a Rolls-Royce. Big house. Limo. All those things. This is why every kid's dream is to be a major-league ballplayer.

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.

I fell in love with a man, not a Beatle.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity