You’re not Dostoevsky,’ said the citizeness, who was getting muddled by Koroviev. Well, who knows, who knows,’ he replied. ‘Dostoevsky’s dead,’ said the citizeness, but somehow not very confidently. ‘I protest!’ Behemoth exclaimed hotly. ‘Dostoevsky...

He went to Man United and the fame and money seemed to affect him badly. He became cockier and arrogant and we met less and less.

With our film, we were trying to show a group of people who have experienced degrees of fame and it’s either been fleeting or they’re trying to regain it.

[Rachel McAdams is quietly and cheerfully philosophical when it comes to talking about her impending fame. Now that her recent Wedding Crashers is a bona fide hit, the beautiful actress, back on screen in Wes...

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterwards.

I’m not interested in corporate magic or fame.

Kleos is sometimes translated as “acoustic renown” the spreading renown you get from people talking about your exploits. It’s a bit like having a large Twitter following.

I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part...

I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, “If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy”. Then again my memory wasn’t so sharp when I took...

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets...

It’s not the money. It’s not the fame. It’s the influence.

It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.

Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big!

Stand out tall amidst challenges! Dwarf all irrelevant voices.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

I seriously wonder if he would go to a premier of a movie about his life because he would have other things to do. He was not into the pomp and circumstance of celebrity or...

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don’t hanker for it.

we’ve learned an interesting rule about fame. Those who seem desperate for it are the people that others least want to see.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with...

Don’t drive a car in the dream, else you won’t drive it on earth. Don’t wish to become, else you won’t become. Don’t associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don’t be addicted...

Integrity of life is fame’s best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

America takes her writers too seriously.

Lao Tzu’s first paragraph in the book “Tao Te Ching” is that the Tao that can be told is not the absolute Tao.Lao Tzu has his own logic, the logic of paradoxes, the logic of...

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted

She really liked you, Noah,”Yeah, well, maybe I’m just an asshole.’I realize my hand is still in his hair and I retract it quickly. He grabs it, holds it against him. You’re not an asshole...

I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.

The American people are strange in their attitudes toward their idols,” he (Taft) mused. They lead them on and then “cut their legs from under them,” simply “to make their fall all the greater.

Think champagne, drink champagne!

Well, I wasn’t going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of twenty struggling writers one could name? Of course not. He’s a...

It turns out horrendous when you choose the wrong options.

Some men are born posthumously.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Odysseus inclines his head. “True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another.” He spread his broad...

Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn’t contribute to either, the good or evil.

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

I’ve heard many say “I’ll sell my soul to the Devil”in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there...

€7,500, first-class, everything—and all that for 40 minutes selling them some old stuff.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

I think that fame removes true happiness. Because when you are famous, people know you for who they think you are and when you are happy, it’s because people have met you and see you...

People don’t follow ordinary people; they follow extraordinary people.

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity...

Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true.

There is a ladder to Success! Choose to climb it.

I’m thirsting for fame. I’m so fucking thirsty. Somebody bring me a tall glass of saltwater with a side order of desert.

It’s part of an interesting phenomena that this computer got its 15 minutes of fame and three years later we are still counting. I think it points to our evolving relationship with technology as it...