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.

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

If I had time, I would become timeless.

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.

I’m not in this for fame. I’m in it to give people hope.

Fame means being respected by everybody, or having some quality that is desired by all men, or by most, or by the good, or by the wise.

So many people hate me and love me for the exact same reasons. This is all the proof I need that my opinion about myself is the only opinion I should ever care about.

If I get famous, I’d seek employment in a wax museum—as a candle. If you fire me, make sure you blow me out before singing Happy Birthday.

Shine forth your light before all beings.

First find your crown and then wear it, then your crowd will come towards you with ovations

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

The moments you are given are your true wealth. You don’t need power, influence, or fame. The sunlight brings the power; the wind carries the influence. And as for fame, well, when you allow yourself...

I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” –Spencer Nye

I think a lot of young people don’t realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

The thing about Bollywood is that you can’t just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one...

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful...

No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed...

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their...

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I’m an instant star, just add water.

Several famous people have licked my nipples. Well, indirectly. First they licked the stamps, and then I peeled them off the letters and stuck them on my nipples.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can’t change a lightbulb.

Sow good seeds for a good yield.

People don’t always go down in history for the vigor with which they perform their jobs. We remember Louis the Fifteenth . . . for his furniture; we remember Pierre Léotard, despite his being the...

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

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Fame and recognition break all scandals; if I were a prostitute I would have chosen to be a famous one.

To be the cynosure of all eyes, do the extraordinary when you are least expected.

I missed the crowds in those big stadiums, the flashbulbs, the roaring cheers – the majesty of the whole thing. I missed it bitterly. So did my father. We shared a thirst to return; unspoken,...

Notoriety wasn’t as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

I reached into the pile and pulled out a few connected chips and then was about to shove them into my mouth, when I saw what appeared to be the face of an angel sitting...

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is “In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.

If I didn’t care for fun and such,I’d probably amount to much.But I shall stay the way I am,Because I do not give a damn.

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

God rewards every act of obedience to His Will.

In your emotions: exercise Joy over sadness.

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having...

[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.

If you don’t have shadows, you’re not in the light.