quotations about fame
When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does. People you run into feel that, well, who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe? They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature -- and it won't hurt your feelings -- like it's happening to your clothes not you.
MARILYN MONROE
attributed, Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress (Rollyson)
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.
JEAN COCTEAU
Opium
No matter how much fame you have, it’s not something that belongs to you. If I’m famous, that doesn’t belong to me -- that belongs to you. If you can’t remember who I am, I’m no longer famous.
MICHAEL J. FOX
Esquire, Dec. 2007
There have been as great Souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734
I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.
LADY GAGA
attributed, Lady Gaga: A Monster Romance
Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON
Fame is a bee
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
DON DELILLO
Underworld
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
H. L. MENCKEN
A Book of Burlesques
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hyperion
I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I’m trying to please everybody, and ya just can’t do that ... at least I can’t.
TIM ALLEN
Laugh Factory Magazine, 1994