Fame Quotes

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that.

If you're a misfit within a group of misfits, does that mean you're actually popular and normal?

It's going to come true like you knew it, but it's not going to feel like you think.

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and hear someone say, 'Thanks, that was great, here's some money, same time tomorrow, okay?'

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

The future will erase everything—there’s no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.

I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

Popularity? It is glory's small change.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.