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I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates
Being at the center of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence -- the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Daniel Day Lewis
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
Michel de Montaigne
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Alan Alda
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.
William Blake
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Proverb
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Vicomte De Chateaubriand
Give all to love; Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the muse; Nothing refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn't she the one who killed her children?
Neil Gaiman
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau
People should realize we're jerks just like them.
Edward de Bono
I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote
I was the only one there I never heard of.
Barry J. Farber
