Fame Quotes · Page 69

I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.

— Rose McGowan

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

— Frank D. Gilroy

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

— Anita Ekberg

I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.

— Dennis Rodman

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

— Lupe Fiasco

“We have not come [here] for fame; we have come [here] for the salvation of others.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Celebrities have to get their cars washed just like everybody else.

— Saul

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

— Tamannaah

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

— Franz Grillparzer

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

— Julie Payette

I just figure if you have a modicum of celebrity, you need to use it, and you need to use it for…

— Paul Haggis

It's a really big deal to have a star on the Walk of Fame; it feels like an incredible achievement.

— Jason Priestley

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've…

— Robert Pattinson

It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

— Paris Hilton

When I started out in this business, I really wanted to become iconic, but I'm glad that didn't happen. I like to…

— Kiki Dee

It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company…

— George Eliot

When I got into the film world, I got sucked into the secular aspect of the entertainment field and I really drifted…

— Chuck Norris

Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't…

— George Harrison

Introverts often work more slowly and deliberately. They like to focus on one task at a time and can have mighty powers…

— Susan Cain

When I went to the Hall of Fame in 2000 and was inducted, it was a travesty the kind of carnage I…

— Howie Long

Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a choice you can make. You can want to be a firework and are comfortable with fame. You love it…

— Mary Nightingale

I would love to do a musical. When I did 'Fame L.A.' for a year - all the singing, dancing and acting…

— Roselyn Sanchez

I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect,…

— Beyonce Knowles

Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.

— Owen Feltham

My name is Kendall. Kendall Jenner. I am not a Kardashian.

— Kendall Jenner

I've never seen myself as a star. I never call myself a celebrity or a superstar, whatever.

— Mr. T

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

— Edward Young

I am uninterested in Jennifer Aniston's take on anything.

— Tim Dillon

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

— William Cowper

Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.

— Paris Hilton

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

— Jenny Slate

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

— Edward Norton

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

— Vera Farmiga

Just being a fun guy is not what I want to be known for.

— Dan Hooker

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

— Ralph Kiner

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

— Elizabeth Kostova

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

— Emily Robison

Girl I'm so wrong. Fuck the money and the fame because that shit don't mean a thing.

— JMSN