Fame Quotes · Page 53

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

— Gustave Flaubert

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

— Francesca Annis

It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

— Aretha Franklin

It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way.

— Mariana Klaveno

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.

— Bryan Greenberg

Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.

— Lord Chesterfield

I don't want to be a celebrity who promotes skinniness to be successful.

— Kerry Katona

I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world.

— Rudy Giuliani

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

— Tacitus

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the…

— Emily Dickinson

Love Island' is for people who aren't celebrities, who've done nothing in their life and are trying to be someone and get…

— Craig Revel Horwood

I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

— Bobby Keys

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for…

— Tom Petty

If we love God's fame and are committed to magnifying His name above all things, we cannot be indifferent to world missions.

— John Piper

I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to…

— Freddie Mercury

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

— Jose Marti

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty…

— Kevin Costner

I think working in the industry, I'd be pretty nervous to have a celebrity crush. I'd be pretty nervous if my boyfriend…

— Bella Heathcote

“I’m sitting here on the Kaye Gibbons Show, and all I can think is that the whole country is sick. Sick with…

— Heather Demetrios

“You think that drinking with a serial killer takes you into the midnight currents of the culture? I say bullshit. There's been…

— Warren Ellis

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination…

— Corra May Harris

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I…

— Lady Gaga

When I started my blog, it was really this one goal - I said, 'I am not going to be famous to…

— Mena Grabowski Trott

I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound…

— Alanis Morissette

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

— Robert Motherwell

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

— Reba McEntire

Fame is a big joke. Stars need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

— Avril Lavigne

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

— Tom Felton

The WWE and their Hall of Fame is disgustingly embarrassing, I want out.

— Superstar Billy Graham

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

— Emily Dickinson

This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.

— Vincent D'Onofrio

“The cult of celebrity is cogitative shit running through the bowel of the intellect.”

— Stephen King

I'm not sure the ring is big enough to hold both these egos!

— Jim Ross

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

— Vanessa Paradis

“Fame must be like being a candy in a child factory!”

— Geoffroy Birtz

You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking.

— Tim Howard

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

— Lady Gaga

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

— Ambrose Bierce

Took my mind away from money, I ain't interested in fame, and I pray that never change.

— Wale

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

— Zoe Saldana