Fame Quotes - Page 18

• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  Danica McKellar

  Dumb, Looks, Jessica

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.

  Christopher Meloni

  Nice, Hard Work, Pride

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• Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

  Sean Connery

  Movie, Book, Numbers

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• I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

  Kylie Minogue

  Years, Games, Next Level

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• People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

  Moby

  People, Assuming, Wealth

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• The people who get more fame, who get more money, more often than not they are miserable, insecure and on anti-depressants. It's strange that everyone keeps buying into this idea that more success is good, that more fame is good, that more money is good. Yet, we look at the people who have more success, more fame, more money and they're miserable.

  Moby

  Insecure, Ideas, People

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• When 'Play' first came out, journalists didn't review it; it didn't get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.

  Moby

  Hate, Successful, Play

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• 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

  Book, Reading, Done

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• Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

  Robert Burns

  Cutting, Criticism, Path

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1829). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings”, p.65

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• Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Meals, Caviar

  "Marilyn Monroe Pours Her Heart Out". Interview with Richard Meryman, LIFE Magazine (p. 38), August 3, 1962.

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• The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Song, Heaven

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Worry

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• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Moon, Unification Church, Academic

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• Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self, People, Hatred

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette" by Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

  Molly Ringwald

  Daughter, Mother, Reality

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• Fame doesn't make it hard to date, because I could be seeing someone now and no-one would know. But if you go out with someone who's in the public eye you're asking for trouble. It's double intensity, double scrutiny. Even if I just went on one date with a normal guy, word gets around and that freaks me out. I don't like all that gossipy stuff.

  Ellie Goulding

  Eye, Guy, Freak

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• Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

  Tacitus

  Men, Lasts, Given

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• Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?

  Paulo Coelho

  Unhappy, Magazines, Slave

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• That's what so many people didn't understand about life. The real world is the one within the walls of homes; the outside world, of careers and politics and money and fame, that was the fake world, where nothing lasted, and things were real only to the extent they harmed or helped people inside their homes.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wall, Real, Home

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Hidden Empire”, p.38, Macmillan

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• Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Form, Worst, Incomprehension

  Jorge Luis Borges (2011). “The Widow Ching--Pirate”, p.57, Penguin UK

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• Poet's food is love and fame.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Poet

  'Good Night'

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• But even with my minimal amount of fame, there are certain perks. Recently, I was at a movie premier, and at the party after the movie, Meryl Streep was loose, walking around the room like a normal person. Absolutely nothing was preventing me from lunging toward her and shrieking "Dingoes ate my baby! Dingoes ate my baby!

  Augusten Burroughs

  Baby, Party, Rooms

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• Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

  Sandra Brown

  Extraordinary Beauty, Pay, Fortune

  Sandra Brown (2013). “French Silk”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

  William Wordsworth

  Men, Joy, Robins

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.91

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• I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

  Lady Gaga

  Music, Crazy, Passion

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