You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

If I had time, I would become timeless.

Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

Wakati mwingine tukitaka kutambulika hatuna budi kuweka mbele aibu ya heshima yetu.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

It’s relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private.

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

The day will come when some more powerful man will get fame and riches from my invention, but nobody will believe that poor John Fitch can do anything worthy of attention.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Why shouldn’t I? I demand silently. Why shouldn’t I become a famous writer? Like Norman Mailer. Or Philip Roth. And F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemmingway and all those other men. Why can’t I be like...

He came face-to-face with the rude paradox fame had dealt him: The secret of his extraordinary art had been his ability to observe human interaction anonymously, thereby gaining insight into the emotions on display in...

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn’t everything.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you’re obsolete.

Choices, options, decisions abound. Choose right, take the best option and decide well.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who...

His fame as an artist requires very tender care. Look what a mask of diplomacy is painstakingly formed by the whole of that fine profile; he is as wily as a cardinal. He has scented...

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

It was your covenant with the devil to exchange your soul for money and fame, so i won’t be sorry for your damn f***ing soul, and the devil gat no time to refund what you...

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

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...

We’re in Des Moines, Iowa today, were in Omaha, Nebraska yesterday and Boise, Idaho the day before. When we landed at the airport in Boise, from Portland, Oregon this lady from our plane came up...

Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in...

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry,...

Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.

It’s quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star.I’d rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

We’re famous” iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him.”So’s Swine Flu” Fang whispered back.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field...

Decide to be rich! Hate poverty strong.

Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done!There are points to be scored. There are games to be won.And the magical things you can do with that ballwill make you the winning-est...

For the average person leading an ordinary life, fame holds an hypnotic attraction. Many would sooner perish than exist in anonymity. But for the unlucky few who’ve had notoriety forced upon them, infamy can be...

A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.

You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was....

Man is but lost in wishes, Of wealth, fame and riches, This airy castle he stitches, With logic that are his ditches.

Don’t try to make yourself marketable, you’ll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you’ll be at the top.

The drying up a single tear has more – Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore

The glory of fame isn’t in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it’s like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

A friend told me that one day he and I would be rich and famous. I told him that I’d trade my half of the fame, for his half of the money.

I wouldn’t say there is really any fame. As for the fans, I think it’s pretty awesome. What I’ve learned is people like to be included in things. So when you go and hang out...

That was pretty disappointing for everybody involved. Hall of Fame Racing doesn’t even own a carburetor. It was just a mistake, a mistake that never should have happened, but it did. It was the first...

Being famous is not all that one should want in life…there is much more to life than name and fame…

There is such a thirst to be known, isn’t there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I’m afraid too many of us...

And [Asimov]’ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people’s books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a...

I’m one of those rare birds that’s in the Clearwater Jazz Holiday hall of fame, … It’s a great tradition. It’s been great to watch it morph and grow.

Don`t complain, Don`t compromise.

Even when I was a very young man,I was looking for the purpose of life; I was looking for happiness all over the world; In fame and in glamour, in wealth and in splendor, not...

I’m not famous, but some people know me by name. Other people know me by number. That number is four.

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of...