Fame famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
-- A. A. Milne -
I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.
-- Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
-- Abbott Lawrence Lowell -
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
-- Adam Clarke -
Hope roves in a future of fame and wealth.
-- Adelbert von Chamisso -
You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
-- Adriana Lima -
Whoever has recognized the vainglory of individuality will not attach any store ("n'attachera aucun prix à ", Fr.) to fame. The only one thing which is really valuable, it is to do good.
-- African Spir -
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
-- Al Goldstein -
I admit that Mendeleev has two wives, but I have only one Mendeleev.
-- Alexander III of Russia -
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
-- Alexander Pope -
Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
-- Alexander Pope -
What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.
-- Alexander Pope -
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
-- Alexander Pope -
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
-- Alexander Pope -
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
-- Alexander Pope -
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
-- Alexander Smith -
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
-- Alison Lohman -
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
-- Allan Kaprow -
I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.
-- Alyson Hannigan -
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
-- America Ferrera -
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...
-- Amit Abraham -
I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
-- Amy Klobuchar -
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
-- Anderson Cooper -
Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.
-- Andrew Garfield -
You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.
-- Ang Lee -
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson -
I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just -- there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just.
-- Anna Nicole Smith -
the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.
-- Anne Truitt -
Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
-- Annette Bening -
Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
-- Annette Funicello -
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.
-- Anson Mount -
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.
-- Armistead Maupin -
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
-- Augustus Hare -
It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy
-- Bennett Cerf -
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
-- Bernie Worrell -
I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.
-- Bert Blyleven -
Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.
-- Bert Blyleven -
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
-- Bette Davis -
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
-- Beverly Sills -
It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
-- Bill Nighy -
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
-- Billy Connolly -
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
-- Bob Dylan -
If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.
-- Bobby Knight -
And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.
-- Boethius -
I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!
-- Bruce Dickinson -
Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
-- Bruce Sutter -
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
-- Bruno Mars -
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
-- Bruno Tonioli -
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
-- Buck Owens -
You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.
-- Casey Stengel -
Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
-- Cat Deeley -
I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.
-- Cat Stevens -
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
-- Cate Blanchett -
I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.
-- Cate Blanchett -
I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
-- Chance the Rapper -
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve -
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense
-- Charles Churchill -
No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
-- Charles Sumner -
I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.
-- Charlie Simpson -
Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.
-- Charlton Heston -
I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.
-- Cher -
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
-- Chris Brown -
Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
-- Chris Evert -
Once I thought that if I just had enough in the bank, if I had enough fame, that it would be all right. But I'm a human being like everyone else. I'm not exempt.
-- Chris Farley -
He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.
-- Chris Martin -
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
-- Christopher Paolini -
Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
-- Cintra Wilson -
It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.
-- Clay Aiken -
Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.
-- Clay Shirky -
When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.
-- Clemence Poesy -
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
-- Clive James -
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.
-- Confucius -
I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.
-- Craig Charles -
Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
-- Crystal Chappell -
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.
-- Curt Flood -
Jerome Bettis should be in the Hall of Fame
-- Curtis Martin -
When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
-- Cyndi Lauper
