Fame Quotes · Page 81

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

— Edward Norton

Just being a fun guy is not what I want to be known for.

— Dan Hooker

I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.

— Vera Farmiga

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity.

— Willie Geist

I didn't really want to be a celebrity. It just kind of happened to me.

— Amber Rose

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

— Jo Stafford

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

— Emily Robison

Girl I'm so wrong. Fuck the money and the fame because that shit don't mean a thing.

— JMSN

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth…

— David Gest

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

— Cullen Hightower

Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Typically, writers meet their subjects at a neutral location - somewhere a publicist has chosen to reveal something about the celebrity, like…

— Mina Kimes

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't…

— Ricky Gervais

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Some people enjoy celebrity. I admire those who do, because if you're going to go through it, you might as well enjoy…

— Julie Christie

Since celebs name-dropping themselves has gotten played, all rants should now begin with, 'Do NOT make me pull a Reese Witherspoon.'

— Kal Penn

I've had a great career; they've put me in the Hall of Fame, and the WBC voted me the best super-middleweight with…

— Nigel Benn

It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Part of our job as quote-unquote 'celebrities' is that we can gather people around things that are important. I think it should…

— Luis Fonsi

There's not always going to be something out there for you, especially not a positive role, so once you get up there…

— Keke Palmer

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious.…

— Bo Burnham

I have a lot of trouble understanding how people see me as a celebrity. I work 14 hours a day, and then…

— America Ferrera

There's nothing ever monetarily or fame-seeking or any of the other motivations that sometimes go hand-in-hand with this profession. To me, it's…

— Charlie Hunnam

We tend to think of our idols as kind of superheroes; maybe less so today, given that people have a tendency to…

— Ben Gibbard

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

— Elizabeth Kostova

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

— Ralph Kiner

Being unknown for the right reasons is far greater than being famous for the wrong reasons.

— Anonymous

Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.

— Justine Bateman

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.

— Lady Gaga

“I know this about celebrity (fame). Glory fades away. It's fickle. It comes and goes.”

— Adolph Caesar

I would never try to measure fame; I'm really just a regular chick from New Jersey.

— Mj Rodriguez

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

— Cyndi Lauper

“Fame has replaced the sea as the element of choice for adventure.”

— Alan Moore

Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.

— Alexander Pope

I was quite shy of fame. It took some getting used to.

— Paul Young

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

— Kate McKinnon

I still feel very uncomfortable with the term 'celebrity' because I don't see myself as one.

— Nicole Seah

You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.

— Patricia Heaton

I don't want to just be known for 'Yellowjackets.'

— Sophie Thatcher

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

— Walt Disney