Fame Quotes · Page 173

I think that what I don't like is everything that surrounds a footballer. The fame, the people idolizing you, the press, not…

— Carlos Vela

Apart from a commendable determination to discomfit Trump and members of his inner circle (select military figures excepted, at least for now),…

— Andrew Bacevich

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And…

— Jesse Stone

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those…

— Alfred de Vigny

I don’t think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and now especially…

— Miley Cyrus

I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it. I read Naomi Klein's No Logo when…

— Andrew Garfield

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you…

— Alan Shepard

To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

To be an artist is not about fame; it's about art, which is this intangible thing that has got to have lots…

— Damien Hirst

As far as celebrity, people don't stop me on the street and know who I am. It's more like, 'Doesn't she remind…

— Michaela Watkins

I care too much about my job. I really dont care about fame and tabloids and all that shit. Its so easy…

— Taylor Momsen

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and…

— Winston Churchill

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where…

— Jarvis Cocker

I find that it's easier to disguise yourself when you go to Florida or places like that, because no one is expecting…

— Megan Fox

Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing…

— Swami Vivekananda

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was…

— Harriet Martineau

I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done…

— Vidya Balan

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of…

— Adam Clarke

Sometimes, fame does scare me. When people know where you are and what you're doing, that can be frightening because I'm such…

— Poppy Delevingne

It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A…

— Adam Baldwin

I'm pretty excited: to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive achievement... and to be inducted with Oscar de…

— Joe Calzaghe

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes.…

— Michael Palin

Viewers have a way of remembering the celebrity while forgetting the product. I did not know this when I paid Eleanor Roosevelt…

— David Ogilvy

I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't...not anymore...consider fame and fortune my career.…

— Christoph Waltz

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the…

— Michael Caine

It's easy to get swept up in the trappings of that sort of lifestyle, but I've been doing it for long enough…

— Cole Sprouse

I was anxious to get back to my life before 'Will & Grace.' You do need that time to find who you…

— Sean Hayes

Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting…

— Alanis Morissette

As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies…

— Brahmagupta

I have always been the first on the dance floor. Before fame, people thought it made me a good laugh; now, people…

— Jessie J

It's strange, somebody asked for my autograph the other day. Because I finished school and I'm not really doing anything at the…

— Robert Pattinson

Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Wealth earned may disappear, beauty will fade, honor may recede and fame diminish; all that shall remain, is a soul that is…

— Henrietta Newton Martin

I dearly believe in my heart that Goldberg is a family man who has a profound love for his wife and son…

— Paul Heyman

For me, my goal is to be able to impact as many people as possible for something good, for something right; to…

— Tim Tebow

The mainstream media is funded by pharmaceutical companies, so when you have the biggest movie star in the world at the time…

— Juliette Lewis

I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and…

— Felicity Jones

Love, when it came and knocked on my door, was going to be enough. And that unknown author who'd written that if…

— Anonymous

I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the…

— Leonard Cohen

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will…

— Michael Schumacher