quotations about fame
Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a deathbed.
ALEXANDER POPE
letter to William Trumbell, Mar. 12, 1713
Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note.
CONFUCIUS
Sayings of Confucius
We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.
JEAN COCTEAU
Opium
No matter how much fame you have, it’s not something that belongs to you. If I’m famous, that doesn’t belong to me -- that belongs to you. If you can’t remember who I am, I’m no longer famous.
MICHAEL J. FOX
Esquire, Dec. 2007
I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.
LADY GAGA
attributed, Lady Gaga: A Monster Romance
Fame is a bee.
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.
EMILY DICKINSON
Fame is a bee
Fame and secrecy are the high and low ends of the same fascination.
DON DELILLO
Underworld
I have way too many commitments. I get pulled in too many directions and I never seem to be able to satisfy anybody. People get turned on by knowing a celebrity, even my friends and family. They feel that there's something exciting about me, but in reality there's no substance to it. People in airports just hold on to me expecting something and it seems that I always come up empty. It's frustrating because I’m trying to please everybody, and ya just can’t do that ... at least I can’t.
TIM ALLEN
Laugh Factory Magazine, 1994
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Hyperion
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
H. L. MENCKEN
A Book of Burlesques