Fame Quotes · Page 84

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

— Marilyn Monroe

God gave me everything - money, fame and love of people, more than what I feel I deserve.

— Jeetendra

There is no faster way of destroying a man, or mocking his ideas, than making him fashionable.

— Paul Theroux

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

— Kirk Douglas

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

— Ewan McGregor

“Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.”

— Lucius Accius

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

— Desiderius Erasmus

It wasn't very easy getting used to being famous. Everybody stared at me in the supermarket and on the street. I think…

— Petra Kvitova

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

— Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 business is about coming up with a business plan and using your relationships and networking and seeing your dreams come true.…

— Eva Marcille

I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long…

— William Butler Yeats

I shy away from celebrity status because I don't want to be known as that guy. But I had a chance to…

— Teddy Bridgewater

“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can…

— Robert Pattinson

Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown…

— Anthony de Jasay

What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up…

— Lord Byron

I didn't have any aspirations to be famous at all.

— Chris Rea

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

— Robert Greene

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I could never even fathom being a famous person. I don't like cameras.

— JaMarcus Russell

“Famous people aren't magic. Despite their thoughts to the contrary.”

— Maria Dahvana Headley

Celebrity culture is an aspirational culture regardless of how much you don't want it to be.

— Paloma Faith

I've never had the passion of wanting to be the next Monica or Beyonce or anything like that.

— Ashleigh Murray

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

— Paulo Coelho

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

— Stephen Fry

Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.

— Tiger Woods

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

— Calista Flockhart

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

— Anne Truitt

In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

— Oleg Cassini

Fame isn't something I signed up for, it's just a by-product of what I wanted to do.

— Josh O'Connor

Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.

— Salman Khan

I can't come to terms with stardom or see myself as a star.

— Dulquer Salmaan