Fame Quotes

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

It is better to be faithful than famous.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

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

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

Scott's Eastwood movie Snowden sounds fascinating. I want to see it because it's about deserting your country ... for whatever reasons you have. Edward Snowden became famous for the wrong reasons, as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger became famous for doing something spectacular.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either.

I realize that some people see going away as, "Oh, he's irrelevant now," but I feel like if I don't go away, I get sick of myself. It's never been my thing to be in the spotlight all the time.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it.

Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains.

Too much to know is to know nought but fame;And every godfather can give a name.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?

Paper is cheap, and authors need not now erase one book before they write another. Instead of cultivating the earth for wheat andpotatoes, they cultivate literature, and fill a place in the Republic of Letters. Or they would fain write for fame merely, as others actually raise crops of grain to be distilled into brandy.

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

I've been in 'Who's Who' and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary.

People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I'm easy to look like, so there are lots and lots of Dolly look-alikes.

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind (playing Tommy Udo in "Kiss of Death") or something like that, where you do some famous role and everybody imitates you for the rest of your life. But obviously it's much more fun to play something you're not than it is to play something you are.

It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Elvis died the day he went into the army.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.

Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

The Beatles had gone beyond comprehension. We were smoking marijuana for breakfast. We were well into marijuana and nobody could communicate with us, because we were just glazed eyes, giggling all the time.

At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.