Motivational Quotes

Fame

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

- Allen, Fred A.

Best Quotes about Fame

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Nicholson, Jack

There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.

Ellinger, Jules

Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

Hazlitt, William

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Virgil

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Baum, Vicki

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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fame is the thirst of youth.

Byron, Lord

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The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.

Bono, Edward De

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Acquaintance lessens fame.

Claudius

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Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

Benjamin Haydon

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A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.

Boorstin, Daniel J.

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Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

Updike, John

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If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

Laura Preble

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Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

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The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

Mills, C. Wright

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

Sontag, Susan

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How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Alexander The Great

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Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

Wynette, Tammy

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Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Smyth, Dame Ethel

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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.

Alda, Alan

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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say,'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

Terry Pratchett

33.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

Garland, Judy

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Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Villiers, George

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The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

Sade, Marquis De

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'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Pound, Ezra

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There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

Auden, W. H.

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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Hellman, Lillian

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

Dave Kellett

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People should realize we're jerks just like them.

Bono, Edward De

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

Parkinson, Cecil

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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Monroe, Marilyn

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What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Wolcot, John

47.

I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon.

Voltaire

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.