Quotes about Fame

You know, people make a lot of money talking about me, don't they?

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

When his rolls royce was mobbed by fans the chauffeur said: ''do you want me to get them off the car?'' and Lennon replied: ''No - they paid for it, they can wreck it

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

There was enough reason for it too, as the whole of France was shaken. Certainly in our eyes the election and its results and its representatives are only symbols. But what it proves once more is that worldly ambition and fame pass away, but the human heart beats the same to this day, in as perfect sympathy with the past of our buried forefathers as with the generation to come.

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.