Fame Quotes · Page 83

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.

— Walter Winchell

“Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.”

— Melissa Jo Peltier

“People come to New York to find fame and fortune. I found both, so I left.”

— Nancy Seligsohn

I think it's my energy and love of life that has been the real key to my fame and success.

— Shakira

I'm not even famous. Famous is when you're iconic and a legend, I'm just known.

— Caleb McLaughlin

As a motivation in itself, celebrity is foolhardy and stupid.

— Christoph Waltz

I'm never gonna sell my soul or violate myself for no amount of dollars or fame.

— Dave East

People always ask how fame has hit me, and rarely do I feel it emotionally.

— Emma Corrin

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could…

— Karl Lagerfeld

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess…

— Willem Dafoe

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you…

— Charles Barkley

“Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.”

— Munindra Misra

Agents told me that in the celebrity world, it's love life and weight gain/loss that people are interested in.

— Gemma Collins

When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet.

— Lu Xun

I have never in any way found the idea of celebrity appealing. Anonymity is much more appealing.

— Dick Clement

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic…

— Edie Falco

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

One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a…

— Kevin Bacon

I firmly believe the fame thing isn't 'real.' It's a by-product of the work being received well and, yes, I can tell…

— Ariana DeBose

My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died,…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

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

— Patrick McEnroe

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

— Sylvester McCoy

“It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of…

— Robert Hughes

To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people…

— Paolo Nutini

Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.

— Simon Cowell

“Hazel's obsession with Hoosiers around the world was a textbook example of a false karass”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Hating on a certain name Only gives them the fame.

— Sharlene05

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

— Frederick Lenz

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

— Antoine Rivarol

I might not a model , I'm not famous but I'm me thats all that counts <3

— Cheyenne Xena

I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.

— Cat Stevens

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

— Lady Gaga

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk

— Lucas Grabeel

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

— Thomas Carlyle

When people say 'overnight success' I say 'oooo that was a long night...'

— Milana May

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

— Martina McBride

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

— Roger Ebert

You thought it was perfect in that 15 minutes of fame..then on the 16th minute it changed.

— Anonymous

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

— John Corbett

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

— Elvis Presley