960 Quotes About Fame

It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

I came back [to school] in the fall, as a full-time boarder, with a certain set to my jaw, determined to go it alone. A summer passed in thoughtful isolation, rowing on a mountain lake, diving from a pier, had made me perfectly reckless. I was going to get myself recognized at whatever price. It was in this cold, empty gambler’s mood, common to politicians and adolescents, that I surveyed the convent setup. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.

I never approach my heroes in public and leave all my illusions about them intact.

A well paid word deceives them. And what kind of a word is a word that has a price, high or low, which is adjusted to the price of fame, and how, long ago, when it was little appreciated, was it more valuable than it is today with a big price?

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

Real men do not work for fame. That is what I think. Popularity is just a piece of crap. I prefer a private life.

I've heard many say "I'll sell my soul to the Devil"in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own