Fame Quotes · Page 118

Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.

— John Burroughs

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

— Anthony Horowitz

When you're famous, you have a certain sense of responsibility because so many people are looking at you for inspiration and for…

— Aimee Osbourne

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to…

— Lady Gaga

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

— Ben Stiller

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.

— Bill Bailey

“Self pity isn't a trophy or a badge to show off as though you've got the rhythm of cool in your corner.”

— Calvin W. Allison

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

— Diana Vreeland

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake…

— Christopher Meloni

I've spent most of my adult life in the United States, and there the celebrity culture has been entrenched for a long…

— Lawrence Osborne

After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures…

— William Benton Clulow

Love must kiss that mortal's eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all…

— Henry Cuyler Bunner

Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has…

— Willis Regier

I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my…

— Mike Schmidt

I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos…

— Sylvester McCoy

“I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape from the…

— Patrick McEnroe

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with…

— Mel Gibson

Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.

— Robert Pattinson

Once asked if he felt wearied by the constant onslaught of autograph seekers, actor Gregory Peck replied that he would be more…

— Christopher Lee

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so…

— Fran Lebowitz

“You really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”

— Lady GaGa

I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators.…

— Kanye West

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm going to be an MVP. I'm going to be Defensive Player of the Year. Not just once, multiple times... And the…

— Thon Maker

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

— Shirley Jones

Sometimes I like [being famous], sometimes I don't. I've always been a people watcher. I like to go to malls and just…

— Drew Carey

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

— Chad Kroeger

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

— Jack Kerouac

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

— Dana Carvey

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be…

— Michael Jordan

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still…

— Nhat Hanh

You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother…

— Marilyn Horne

I think, most of the time, fame is just an inconvenience that needs to be negotiated around to get done what you're…

— Charlie Hunnam

Everyone is complicated, but when you're famous, you have to be pigeon-holed. By doing different stuff, that's rubbed up in complicated ways…

— David Baddiel

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless…

— Sammy Davis, Jr

One of the things that's fun about that is that sometimes you grow up knowing about someone because they were famous, but…

— Matt Ross

None of us are really singled out as like, the star of the show, you know what I mean? Nobody's in anybody's…

— Brian Quinn

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

— Pablo Picasso

Everyone is so attached to someone having a spat with another celebrity. It overshadows the good people do.

— Cher Lloyd