Quotes About Fame

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

I have been recognized from Mad Men, and it's so cool when that happens because I am so proud to be a part of the show.

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

I have the face of an ageing choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I.

Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.

A new biography of Madonna came out last week, and apparently the biography lists all the men she's slept with. The book is apparently called the Manhattan Telephone Directory.

There are only three men in the world who are licensed to wear shorts: Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp and Tom Cruise.

Fame is a Bleet, man.

I'll know I'm famous when I have five Ferraris, seven houses, Cameron Diaz on my arm and a little man following me with a huge bag of money.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.

Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I'm really too young to be feeling this old.