Fame Quotes

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

~ Bob Dylan

I think I know what military fame is, to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

~ William T. Sherman

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

~ J.g. Ballard

Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places.

~ Curtis Sittenfeld

Think champagne, drink champagne!

~ Ellen Dean

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.

~ Marty Rubin

Heroes must see to their own fame. No one else will.

~ Gore Vidal

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.

~ Virginia Woolf

LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.

~ David Foster Wallace

Fame Imperishable and glory that will never die -- that is what we march for!

~ Steven Pressfield

Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core..

~ Himmilicious

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition and fame, were merely an attempt to keep his most ancient fears at bay, a stratagem for taking refuge behind a lens to test whether reality was more tolerable from that perspective.

~ Isabel Allende

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.

~ Cintra Wilson

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.

~ Marvin Gaye

We're famous iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him.So's Swine Flu Fang whispered back.

~ James Patterson

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

~ B.f. Skinner

I shall bere your noble fame, for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully.

~ Thomas Malory

Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He's a clever, prolific man; so are they. But he began with money and friends; he came from Oxford into the thick of advertised people; his name was mentioned in print six times a week before he had written a dozen articles. This kind of thing will become the rule. Men won't succeed in literature that they may get into society, but will get into society that they may succeed in literature.

~ George Gissing

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

~ Henry Fielding

A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.

~ Frank D. Gilroy

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

~ Rube Goldberg

To be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye

~ Jason Letts

Innocent like the first dreamsA few words dropped on the paper;Contaminated they were by the surrounding air,Fame swarmed, naivety disappeared!

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

So many stars in the sky, each unique and full of destiny. I wanted more than anything to be part of those stars.I never realized becoming one would destroy me.

~ Tracy Krimmer

I'm the most famous person, problem is people don't know it yet…

~ Kevin Focke

Fame is such a waste. It can't even be recycled.

~ Sumana Roy

There are never any real stars in LA, but we’ve got a bunch of fake ones made out of brass and terrazzo. We embed them in the sidewalks outside of strip clubs and gift shops— Walk of Fame, walk of shame… walk of names we’re all destined to forget sooner or later.

~ Kris Kidd

Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I understand that comes with the territory, and that celebrities have a contract with the public: they get to be the target of jealousy and criticism, and sometimes admiration, in exchange for money and recognition. But I let that contract run out a while ago. It is not my job to be pretty, or cute, or anything that someone else wants me to be.

~ Mara Wilson

The bigger the star, the bigger the target.

~ Michael Jackson

The ovation roared around him. He felt nothing in particular, hardly even the embarrassment he had feared. He had to go up again—this time without Fräulein Gasteiner, and it was a little peculiar to him to hear the noise of clapping hands and the loud shouts of Bravo. He bowed several times, turned to the door and then, just as the clapping was getting weaker, he heard a voice from slightly behind him, or to the side—he couldn't quite tell—but the words were perfectly distinct, no matter how quietly they had been said: Poor devil! He wanted to look around, but he felt that that would seem absurd.

~ Arthur Schnitzler

Vell, Zaphod’s just zis guy, you know?

~ Douglas Adams

When we were young, not so long agoFame was my favorite television show,Lydia brought out the dancer in you and me,There was Coco, Holly and Shorofsky,Glued to my set to watch them dance and actLeroy was my favorite dancer on that setCleo really won my heart; she later rose to “Fame”I will never forget Irene Cara’s song “Remember My Name

~ Charmaine J. Forde

Work neither for fame nor profit. An artist should aspire only to inspire.

~ Hayden Pearton

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.

~ Dave Holmes

In this age where people can become famous without doing anything, we are now encouraging a literary and publishing atmosphere where you must become famous before you can do anything.

~ Daniel R. Thorne

But one has to ask: why do the big things at such a high cost? I chose the quiet life. I like the idea of being recognized by my field and no one else. This way I have a purpose, one I believe in, but I'm not burdened by the constant idea of putting on a public image, a view of myself the masses can accept. Nobody cares whether I'm fat or cheat on my taxes. It is not the only right kind of life, of course, but it is the honest life for me. What I'm saying is, I make the right choices for myself.

~ Jaroslav Kalfar

...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.

~ Jennifer Mason-Black

While yes, it’s good to have a fair amount of haters, it’s not good to have them on the street, where their anonymity can let them slip away without serious repercussions if they slight you, and this made me realize that fame, on its own, without fear, actually totally fucking sucks.

~ A.d. Aliwat