Fame Quotes

I don't want to be famous or popular or known for anything other than that I was deep and wise and had a soul that was wildly beautiful, full of mercy and light.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

"People always ask me how I handle fame. I don't," says Keanu. "The word fame comes from the Latin word 'fama', which means rumor. It's just gossip. All I can do is hope that I get work and that people enjoy what I do. Above and beyond that, I don't really concern myself."

Miss Bankhead isn't well enough known nationally to warrant my imitating her.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.

Celebrities should pick what they are passionate about and support those causes.

We defy celebs, which is ridiculous. They're just humans who have teams of people to make them look awesome.

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

I've always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.

Tomorrow morning some poet may, like Byron, wake up to find himself famous—for having written a novel, or for having killed his wife; it will not be for having written a poem.

All this "King" stuff is pure bullshit. I eat and sleep and go to the bathroom just like anyone else. I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it.

You need tough skin to be in this business. I don't have tough skin right now and I don't want it.

I was sucked in by something I thought was real and I have realized it isn't, and it is not necessarily something I want to be a part of.

Few children of famous people succeed. Most of them are little shits.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.