Fame Quotes
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A lot of people think that fame is the Band-Aid that cures their ills. I'm no kid, and I knew long before I got famous that wasn't the deal. I'm the court jester, not the queen.
Sharon Stone
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I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.
Beyonce
Destiny's Child
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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
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
Dan Colen
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The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
Beverly Sills
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.
Michael Caine
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
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Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
Sonny Bono
Sonny & Cher
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Jack London
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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Whatever your work and whatever its worth, No matter how strong or clever, Some one will sneer if you pause to hear, And scoff at your best endeavor. For the target art has a broad expanse, And wherever you chance to hit it, Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame, There are those who will never admit it.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox