960 Quotes About Fame

Fame in posterity is like wreaths or bouquets of flowers offered to a beautiful maid now that she is a skeleton. They are there to give credit to the flowers or the giver of them rather than to the dead maid. - On Posthumous Fame.

Joan Baez was a personality before she was entirely a person, and, like anyone to whom that happens, she is in a sense the hapless victim of what others have seen in her, written about her, wanted her to be and not to be.

Dispatches and warnings from this side of the fame fence tend to go ignored, dismissed as either whining or false modesty; if they weren't ignored, if people listened, no one would ever again seek attention. But they always do, they strive and strive, hoping one day they, too, will have the luxury of lamenting their high profile.

I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself a big deal, that's when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is. Look at, like, the miserable lives of famous people.

People will copy your words, your style, your attitude and get more fame than you. Doesn't matter - because it's you who lived, not them.

If you haven't received death threats, you haven't become famous yet.

Fame makes a man slave to all people. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

Don't sell your dignity to create your fame then you will have no shame.

Fame is longing. Not yours, but the audience’s. A star is nothing more, nothing less, than the public face of private desire.