Motivational Quotes

Fame

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

Best Quotes about Fame

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

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

I want to be famous everywhere.

Pavarotti, Luciano

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Huxley, Aldous

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Lessing, Doris

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To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.

Roth, Philip

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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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Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Jessica Alba

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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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I had it all and blew it.

Mantle, Mickey

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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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Fame is a constant effort

Renard, Jules

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A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Davis, Miles

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Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Miller, Henry

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In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth.

Mills, C. Wright

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Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

Cato The Elder

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My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Byron, Lord

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Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Dickinson, Emily

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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

Pope, Alexander

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

Sade, Marquis De

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

Parkinson, Cecil

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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Caussin, Nicolas

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Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Cioran, E. M.

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It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

Nabokov, Vladimir

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He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..

Rostand, Jean

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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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Popular applause veers with the wind.

Bright, John

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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 love of glory gives an immense stimulus.

Ovid

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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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Updike, John

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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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Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Crockett, Davy

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Popularity? It is glory's small change.

Victor Hugo