Quotes About Celebrity Fame

#1. I know this about celebrity (fame). Glory fades away. It's fickle. It comes and goes.

Adolph Caesar

#2. This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.

Oprah Winfrey

#3. For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame ... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

Marc Almond

#5. When people don't gossip or talk about you, you are not making waves.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#6. The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.

Bassem Youssef

#7. I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

Carrie Fisher

#8. Most Americans didn't distinguish fame from accomplishment.

Douglas Brinkley

#9. Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

Emile Souvestre

#11. Fame clearly breeds a false sense of security.

Eric Reynolds

#12. Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. The Internet, my fickle friend, my two-faced enemy, what would life be like without you? Where else can I be anonymously anyone and yet, have no anonymity at all?

Susan Schussler

#14. I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

Cate Blanchett

#15. My business is creating fame and celebrity, and I'm one of the best in the world. I know it to the finest detail. I reflect what's out there, and if there's a demand for something, I recognise it. I don't think I'm crass. I stand by everything I do.

Simon Fuller

#16. It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Bill Bryson

#17. Fame cannot teach game.

Habeeb Akande

#18. When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.

Saina Nehwal

#19. Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

Jack Gleeson

#20. What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity.

Katy Perry

#21. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Lupe Fiasco

#22. I get hired more then I get seen more. I get seen more then maybe celebrity and fame happens but at the end of the day there's no difference between my five dollar performance and my fifty million dollar performance. It's not going to make me a better father.

Tom Hardy

#23. They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.

Steve Martin

#24. Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it's easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Daniel Rodriguez

#25. I believe India has multi-talented people, so I have also embarked on my journey as an actor. I don't need to be a celebrity, since tennis has already given fame to me.

Leander Paes

#26. 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

#27. For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.

Gabrielle Aplin

#28. I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

Jamie Lawson

#29. A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#30. I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

Tom Hollander

#31. For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

Lupe Fiasco

#32. It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

Johnny Rich

#33. 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

#34. But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

J.K. Rowling

#35. Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.

T.E. Lawrence

#36. Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.

Susan Isaacs

#37. Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.

Jerry Seinfeld

#38. When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

Billy Childish

#39. Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#40. Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Simon Van Booy

#41. 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

#42. The brightest stars don't necessarily give the most light.

Marty Rubin

#43. Celebrity: I picture myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere.

Jean Cocteau

#44. Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.

Anonymous

#45. The way I've been able to embrace fame is by realizing that celebrity is just a means to send whatever message you want out into the world.

Evangeline Lilly

#46. You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'

Karl Lagerfeld

#47. I'm a career actor. And I question this constant reliance on TV fame and celebrity.

Alexander Hanson

#48. If success could heal, why do so many celebrity marriages end in divorce and celebrated artists wind up in rehab or the morgue? Why do people with a firm grip on the world's tail take their own lives or pursue suicidally risky behaviors?

Peter Coyote

#49. Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

Meagan Good

#50. Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.

Flea

#51. The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

Carla H. Krueger

#52. I was a common man, and I will always remain a common man. No amount of stardom will ever consume my soul. Money comes, money goes. Fame comes, fame goes. I believe every human being is a celebrity in their own right.

A.R. Rahman

#53. Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

Phillip Adams

#54. He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true - but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We're all famous in our own hearts anyway.

Simon Van Booy

#55. You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity.

Tucker Max

#56. I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does.

Eva Mendes

#57. Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.

Mal Fletcher

#58. Lesson to would-be fame seekers: It's not really a new world when it comes to celebrity. There are no shortcuts. It's still talent, perseverance and hard work. Even the speed and reach of the Net can't create lasting value and income overnight.

Sarah Lacy

#59. When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Joy Bryant

#60. I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

David Schwimmer

#61. Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives.

Diana Ross

#62. Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Vanna Bonta

#63. The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

Abraham H. Maslow

#64. I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

Dan Aykroyd

#65. Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.

Pablo Schreiber

#66. I want to thank him. For showing me that life is full of love and hope and goodness, even when there's the most unbearable sadness. And those, more than money and fame and celebrity, are what make people precious.

Debbie Howells

#67. Celebrity is a corrosive condition for the soul.

Charlton Heston

#68. I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

Jane Pauley

#69. I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet.

Lady Gaga

#70. I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'

Ryan Giggs

#71. I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

Adrian Grenier

#72. There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#73. You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.

Jodhi May

#74. Wouldn't a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?

Johnny Rich

#75. A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

J.G. Ballard