Quotes About Fame

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.

The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.

I always wanted to be a leading man!

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James almost killed me.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

I am the only man who can say he's been in Take That and at least two members of the Spice Girls.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.

I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

Marrying any man is risky. Marrying a famous man is kissing catastrophe.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.