Fame Quotes

Fame is the accumulation of misunderstandings around a well-known name

~ Gregory Benford

I'm a role model now. ... I want to be a better person because I don't want to disappoint those girls. I stop and think about my actions more. I tip great, I try not to swear too much, and I remember to thank people and be grateful. And all that stuff I do to appear' better has actually made me a better person. I wish I had always acted like I was a little bit famous.

~ Mindy Kaling

Fame had kept me from getting laid that night. Fame would make it so other people would bother me, follow me around with cameras, be all up in my shit, keep me from doing what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Fame could even potentially kill me. It killed a lot of people: John Lennon, Princess Diana, Selena.

~ A.d. Aliwat

A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you’re famous, it’s as if you’ve got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.

~ Heathcote Williams

I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

It was not impulse.It was not lust.It was not wrath, or boredom, or desperation.People remembered the saints because they had their tokens.

~ Pam Jones

Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

~ Eric Reynolds

Who was he if not destined for fame?

~ Madeline Miller

His being famous didn’t give him a right to use her and treat her like dirt.

~ Michelle Madow

Privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

~ Bob Dylan

Fame is vanity's bait.

~ Toba Beta

It's not the game, Zee. It's the fame. Everyone wants to be affiliated with a winner.

~ S.m. Parker

Whether it was by someone volunteering to be an extra in our show, or part of the crew, or someone buying a DVD at a convention, or a superfan who tattooed our characters' faces on her calf, my career has been built fan by fan. I wouldn't trade that relationship, or collection of dolls of myself, for all the money and fame in the world.

~ Felicia Day

All the best! You are a local legend in a Brisbane and Australia...you probably don't realise just how much...you will get released from that hell hole...you will come home...and discover your 'celebrity status'...which you will probably find nearly as hard to cope with...a different version of hell...anonymity to global fame...what a remarkable journey your life is. Keep safe...head down...this will pass.

~ Paige Garland

When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.

~ Comte De Lautréamont

Fame for the lames, fortune for the brains.

~ T.f. Hodge

When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.

~ Michael P Naughton

Don’t rush to rise to fame, lest you will be lashed in shame

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

What if, you know—what if hanging out with Griffo Gerritszoon wasn’t always that great? What if he was weird and dreamy? What if the best part of him was the shapes he could make with metal? That part of him really is immortal. It’s as immortal as anything’s going to get.

~ Robin Sloan

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

~ Robert Black

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, not for glory, not for fame. For one person, in the dark where no one will ever know or see.

~ J. Michael Straczynski

...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do.

~ Angela Carter

Fame is proof that people are gullible.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gandhi sacrificed India for his own fame and recognition. Without Gandhi, there would have been a different India; a very masculine one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing, not that honor makes them excellent.

~ Thomas Aquinas

Television isn't any longer the only way to fame, all you need is the internet to break into the game

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

When we call a philosopher distinguished, we are not saying that she is worthy and not saying that she is recognized, but we are saying that she occupies the intersection of both – that she is recognized and worthy; even that she is recognized because she's worthy. In the case of arate, the direction of the because can seem a little vaguer, so that it can sometimes seem almost as if someone is regarded as worthy because they are recognized.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

Kleos is sometimes translated as acoustic renown the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It's a bit like having a large Twitter following.

~ Rebecca Goldstein

This pervasive craving to be recognized as special amounted to an abdication of power, an outsourcing of your core responsibilities. I spurned the fawning of strangers, but I did feel special to myself. I had found that feeling special was a private experience, and no one else's projected fascination could substitute for quiet absorption in your own life.

~ Lionel Shriver

I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.

~ Rabih Alameddine

we've learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see.

~ Jeanne Ryan

Fame is nothing but the sum of all the misunderstandings that cluster around a new name…Wherever a human achievement becomes truly great, it seeks to hide its face in the lap of general, nameless greatness.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy. Then again my memory wasn't so sharp when I took drugs. Some of what was said about me might be true. At worst it gave me jerk-off material.

~ Aiden Shaw

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

~ Blaise Pascal

Italian-Americans in New York had not been in much of a flag-waving mood prior to DiMaggio's arrival. By the All-Star break, the rookie had established himself as a wonderful player (.358, 10HR, 60 RBIs), fully justifying the acclaim. But Gehrig was even better (.399, 20 HR, 61 RBIs). He was leading the league in nearly every category, including invisibility.

~ Jonathan Eig

Most people don’t understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don’t get a chance to live their lives.

~ Diana Ross

If you act like a rock star you will be treated like one.

~ Marilyn Manson

What I really wanted... wasn't fame. All I wanted was to know... whether or not I should've been born. Huff... I can't even shout anymore. Luffy, listen to my next words carefully. Tell everybody what I say to you. Pops!! Fellow pirates!! And... Luffy... I've always been such a hopeless person... huff huff... I was demon spawn... the son of the devil!! Thank you... for loving me!!

~ Portugas D. Ace