Fame Quotes
2089 quotes by 1476 authors
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style,…
— Pietro Aretino
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
— Lucius Accius
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Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the…
— Dan Aykroyd
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
— Francis Bacon
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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it…
— Francis Bacon
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Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.
— Kevin Bacon
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I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
— Lloyd Banks
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I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
— Tyra Banks
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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how…
— George Matthew Adams
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet…
— George Matthew Adams
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I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
— Brigitte Bardot
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One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want…
— Charles Barkley
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music…
— P T Barnum
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The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh of our nine…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's…
— Drew Barrymore
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I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic…
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
— David Beckham
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I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want…
— Adele
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