Top 100 Famous Fame Quotes
#1. I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous ... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.
Edie Campbell
#2. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
Zadie Smith
#3. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ...
and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.
Marilyn Monroe
#5. A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.
Jacobus Henricus Van 't Hoff
#6. I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.
Jessica Cutler
#7. On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
Diogenes
#8. I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.
Peter Cushing
#9. Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students.
"Don't let it worry you," said Ron. "It's me. I'm extremely famous.
J.K. Rowling
#10. Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
John Carroll Lynch
#11. You know you're really famous when there's rumors about you being gay.
Jared Leto
#12. Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
Franz Grillparzer
#13. A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.
Sharon Stone
#14. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
Bill O'Reilly
#15. I had always wondered why people wanted to be rich and famous. If you could be rich and anonymous, that would be fun. To be famous and not rich, the way we were, was the least fun. It takes time and effort to be famous, and if they offer you fame without the money, don't take it. It's a scam.
Alan Alda
#16. I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
Gabourey Sidibe
#17. Fame and recognition break all scandals; if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one.
M.F. Moonzajer
#18. Famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy. "Can't even go to a bookshop without making the front page.
J.K. Rowling
#19. It is the possession of a great heart or a great head, and not the mere fame of it, which is worth having, and conducive to happiness. Not fame, but that which deserves to be famous, is what a man should hold in esteem.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#20. I might not be famous one day. But I'd still be happy.
Salma Hayek
#21. You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
Ansel Elgort
#22. A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I'd trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#23. I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.
Bo Burnham
#24. Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.
Victoria Beckham
#25. Making name for yourself requires you not to stop and consider you have done enough but rather continue to move forward
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
Philippe Petit
#27. Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.
Rick Astley
#28. I made my name". What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it's more subtle than that.
Becky Wicks
#30. A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.
Max Frisch
#31. Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere
#32. There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
Chris Rock
#33. Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.
Philip Roth
#34. You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
Nikki Cox
#35. People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.
Zach Braff
#36. Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#37. In this age where people can become famous without doing anything, we are now encouraging a literary and publishing atmosphere where you must become famous before you can do anything.
Daniel R. Thorne
#38. Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
Allan Kaprow
#39. I only want to be famous to my friends.
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Sondra Faye
#40. I'm really ambitious about is being a really good comic and doing it for the rest of my life and getting really big. Not really famous because I want fame or attention, just a little freedom. So, that's where I'm ambitious.
Jen Kirkman
#41. If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
Michael Schumacher
#42. As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.
Amber Tamblyn
#43. I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.
Lady Gaga
#44. The young will not always be young, the famous will not always be relevant, the outspoken will not always have a voice. Make the most of now.
Olarewaju Oladipo
#45. Many people seek fame outside the home without ever realizing how spectacularly famous they are in it.
Charles F. Glassman
#46. I want to hear one more of your stories
Tangle up in your dreams, give up the fight
'Pour one more glass of that wine
And I might not go home tonight...
Becky Wicks
#47. That anyone would want to be famous still mystified Colin. As TV had trained him to do, he associated the word with divorces and court appearances and rehab and jail time. He knew more than he wanted about all of those except rehab, and that was the one famous people blew off anyway.
Harry Turtledove
#48. The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
J.K. Rowling
#49. Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren't created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat. Reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher.
Yu Hua
#52. I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
Noomi Rapace
#53. And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name.
Seneca.
#54. I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Jim Carrey
#55. We should think of those who were famous for their good deeds or their bad deeds; did their fame raise them one single degree in the sight of Allah. Did it win them a reward that they had not already won by their actions during their life?
Ibn Hazm
#57. I would like to be famous but unknown.
Edgar Degas
#58. George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
Alvin Lee
#59. To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#60. There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.
Ellen DeGeneres
#61. She was one of those people who are famous beyond their actual achievement.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#62. Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
Big Sean
#63. I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
Virginia Woolf
#64. I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
Jonathan Tucker
#66. The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
Robert South
#67. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.
Banksy
#68. You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.
Jamie Cullum
#69. There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
Benjamin Franklin
#70. It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
#71. When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.
Tila Tequila
#72. Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
Bennett Cerf
#73. Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
Robert A. Burton
#74. A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. I never heard so many kids talk about just doing anything to be famous. I mean, yeah, fame is part of the deal when you're a kid and you think, I wanna go into music, but everybody that I knew was really doing it because of their love for it. I don't see so much of that anymore.
David Bowie
#76. Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.
Bruno Mars
#77. Effort makes some great men famous.
Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Idries Shah
#78. Fame is in the eyes of the beholder; that meant that even though the beholder thinks their famous, to millions of other people they are not...
Whereas some will see you as an idol and well-known when you do not see yourself as either.
Melina Turner
#79. Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
Erica Jong
#80. There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing.
Debbie Allen
#81. I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.
Malcolm Cowley
#83. First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#84. I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
Marvin Gaye
#85. And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.
Tom Felton
#86. He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply because he felt he had interesting stories to tell that people might like to hear.
Andrew James Pritchard
#87. She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity.
F.R. Tallis
#88. A friend of mine, Warren Lemming, has this theory: if you're famous, it's as if you've got a golden monkey on your shoulder. When people come up to talk to you, they just see the monkey.
Heathcote Williams
#89. Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..
Dr. Seuss
#90. I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
Kat Dennings
#91. A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#92. Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.
Voltaire
#93. I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
Jessica Alba
#95. Making a name for yourself comes from working hard
Sunday Adelaja
#96. I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.
Tommy Wiseau
#97. Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
Jessica Alba
#98. Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
Robert Galbraith
#99. You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.
Steve Martin
