Fame Quotes

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

~ Will Cuppy

People forget your face after a book tour or an infrequent appearance on Letterman, but put your face on your books and you're handing them your life. They presume to know what you think or who you are.

~ Katherine Reay

Fame & fortune come with a price that fame finds insulting and fortune can't afford to pay back.

~ Dean Cavanagh

Good choice,' Laura Said. 'Our neighbour, Mrs Crabtree, came round this morning and she put it best. Her theory is that fame is like a bubble. It looks gorgeous on the outside, as if it's been painted with pretty colours, but when you pop it there's nothing there. She said that life, love and friendship are what matters, and that what you do is more important than what you show.

~ Lauren St. John

I should never have dreamed of purpose, I am coming to the conclusion that privacy, the small individual lives of men, are preferable to all this inflated macrocosmic activity.

~ Salman Rushdie

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go.Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat.

~ Erica Jong

Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more complication, sleaze, struggle, true beauty, unfairness, profundity, passion, and depth of consciousness than she, in her frantic struggle to be somebody other than her unspectacular self, had been previously aware of. page 302

~ Cintra Wilson

Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers - the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken, undeniable.

~ Mitch Albom

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public, they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

~ Banksy

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

~ Dan Pearce

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

~ Homer

Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.

~ Shirley Temple Black

The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

~ John Fitch

He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?''No, I have not.''Well, well, such is fame!

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

~ Enid Bagnold

So you want to be famous? You want to inspire large groups of people? You want to be recognized and appreciated by thousands or even millions? Stop trying to do it by speaking to the masses. Do it by speaking to individuals. If what you have is truly amazing and unique and worth sharing, individuals will share it. It is always about the individual, no matter how big you get. Remember that.

~ Dan Pearce

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

~ Robert Galbraith

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.

~ Isaac Newton

Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that’s when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is.

~ John Green

Sun glasses are the unofficial celebrities’ uniform.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

~ John Updike

When people don't gossip or talk about you, you are not making waves.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.

~ Simon Van Booy

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

~ John Webster

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

~ John Grisham

Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot. They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.

~ Shay Caroline

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She cracked a sexy smile with a side of condescension. “Jack, I’m not looking to know you.”No, she wasn’t, unless you counted biblically. She was looking for the guy who indiscriminately dated and bedded famous women. A guy whose life could be reduced to adjectives, most of them unflattering. That guy.

~ Kate Meader

Most people inherit success and fame, if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

How can I have my 15 minutes of fame when open mics only allow you to perform for 10 minutes.

~ R.k. Cowles

Fame and recognition break all scandals, if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

He who advances without seeking fame,Who retreats without escaping blame,He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,The man is a jewel of the Realm

~ Sun Tzu

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like them? I mean, what is the point of becoming a writer if no one reads what you’ve written?Damn Viktor Greene and The New School. Why do I have to keep proving myself all of the time? Why can’t I be like L’il, with everyone praising and encouraging me? Or Rainbow, with her sense of entitlement. I bet Viktor Greene never asked Rainbow why she wanted to be a writer.Or what if-I wince-Viktor Greene is right? I’m not a writer after all.

~ Candace Bushnell

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.

~ Seneca

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

~ Neil Gaiman

I think it's nice for stars to do interviews to make us think they are just like us, but to tell you the truth, I get the feeling that it's all a big lie. The problem is I don't know who's lying.

~ Stephen Chbosky