Quotes about Fame
Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease.
- Herman Melville
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life on Planet Earth. And I'm okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?
- Tina Fey
I used to want to be a movie star so I wouldn't have to live in trailers anymore. And now that I make movies, I spend a lot of my life living in trailers.
- Roseanne Barr
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
- Stephen Jay Gould
If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.
- George Clooney
It's flattering to people who stop you and say that you've helped them and all. But, again, you know, you've got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.
- Joel Osteen
If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.
- Julian Casablancas
People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.
- Jimmy Carter
My oomph factor helped me enter B-town. I have a naturally gifted body.
- Payal Rohatgi
I wouldn't play glamour for glamour.
- Toni Collette
He will have true glory who despises it.
- Livy