960 Quotes About Fame

It was not impulse.It was not lust.It was not wrath, or boredom, or desperation.People remembered the saints because they had their tokens.

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see.

People don't always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the greatest trapeze artist ever, for his leotard. The idea is to give your name to something, like the zeppelin, the newton, Morse code, the chicuelina.

Cattle die, kinsmen die, you yourself must also die, but he who wins word fame lives forever

A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.

Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I am a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch—terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

Fame kills brain cells

Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye

Harry era como eu. Estava no cinema pela glória. Porque o show business o ocupava, o tornava importante, o deixava sempre vigilante. Harry, assim como eu tinha sido atraído para aquele mundo do ego.E nós dois tivemos a sorte de encontrar nosso lado humano nele, ainda que aparentemente por acaso.