More Famous Sayings And Quotations On Fame

by allinspiration.com

“I don’t know about this thing – being famous. I haven’t figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.”
– Helen Slater

“Even the best things are not equal to their fame.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I’ve just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don’t know what put that bug in me at a young age.”
– Holly Madison

“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there’s a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
– J. K. Rowling

“A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.”
– Jack Nicholson

“When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.”
– James Carville

“When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.”
– Jason Lee

“You aren’t famous until my mother has heard of you.”
– Jay Leno – Famous

“I’ve never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.”
– Jeremy London

“Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.”
– John Cusack

“Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ‘somebody,’ to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.”
– John Updike

“Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.”
– Johnny Mathis

“There is no defense against criticism except obscurity.”
– Joseph Addison

“The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.”
– Justin Timberlake

“I can’t imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.”
– Kat Dennings

“It wasn’t glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn’t merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.”
– Kate Adie

“The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.”
– Kristen Stewart

“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

“People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.”
– Leonardo Dicaprio

“Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don’t really dig being famous.”
– Liz Phair

“The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.”
– Margot Kidder

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”
– Marilyn Monroe

“I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.”
– Martin Yan

“I’d had people say, ‘You’ll enjoy being famous for a week, and you’ll never enjoy it again’. But I don’t think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.”
– Matt Damon

“You’re always a little disappointing in person because you can’t be the edited essence of yourself.”
– Mel Brooks

“All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

“For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.”
– Michelle Pfeiffer

“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.”
– Miles Davis

“It’d be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it’s totally obvious to everyone that I did it.” 
– Mindy Kaling

“If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it’s being washed up right after.”
– Moon Unit Zappa

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