Fame Quotes · Page 65

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

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

— Tim Howard

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Self pity isn't a trophy or a badge to show off as though you've got the rhythm of cool in your corner.”

— Calvin W. Allison

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

— Diana Vreeland

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with…

— Mel Gibson

If you become famous but haven't actually achieved anything, then your life has no real meaning - unless you're spectacularly shallow.

— Bill Bailey

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

— Ben Stiller

If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to…

— Lady Gaga

“You really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.”

— Lady GaGa

Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy…

— Florence King

There are people who tell you to shut up because you're just a celebrity, but pundits, talking heads, they're every bit the…

— Kevin Bacon

People say a lot of mess about celebrities. In the social media world, celebrities are able to go online and see nice…

— Wendy Williams

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity…

— Phillip Adams

There are a lot of perks that come with fame and with every positive there's a negative and then it all kind…

— Ashton Kutcher

[Relationships] never seem to work out, I mean it gets to the point where I have to be extremely cautious. You have…

— Danny Denzongpa

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the…

— Richard M. Nixon

Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous,…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

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

— Geoffroy Birtz

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

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

— Zoe Saldana

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

— Wale

I was never one of those people who was desperate to be famous.

— David Essex

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

— Gustave Flaubert

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

— Katharine Hepburn

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

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

— Robert Motherwell