FAME QUOTES V

quotations about fame

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

JEAN COCTEAU

Opium

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Fame is like a coin given to you by Fate. But everyone knows that each coin has two sides. After a while fame can become a nuisance to you because of the constant, intrusive, and overwhelming attention.

NATALIE F. VISHNAYAKOVA

The Abcs of Creativity, Talent, and Spirituality


There have been as great Souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanack, 1734

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I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

LADY GAGA

attributed, Lady Gaga: A Monster Romance


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

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Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.

EMILY DICKINSON

Fame is a bee

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Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

H. L. MENCKEN

A Book of Burlesques

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Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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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

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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

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