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Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. John Updike Fame 1,374
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. Socrates Fame 917
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. William Shakespeare Fame 184
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Sir Winston Churchill Fame 173
Spring is a natural resurrection, an experience in immortality. Henry David Thoreau Fame 167
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. Erica Jong Fame 166
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. William Shakespeare Fame 121
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. Ralph Waldo Emerson Fame 118
On Liz Taylor: I might run from her for a thousand years, and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out. Richard Burton Fame 108
How vain, without the merit, is the name. Homer Fame 107
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. Vladimir Nabokov Fame 104
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. George Washington Carver Fame 104
I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated. Marvin Gaye Fame 101
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. Desiderius Erasmus Fame 100
The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised. Epicurus Fame 100
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. William Shakespeare Fame 100
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. Marcus Tullius Cicero Fame 96
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion. Tacitus Fame 96
Fame is the thirst of youth. Lord (George Gordon) Byron Fame 96
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. Dante Alighieri Fame 96
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. Antoine Rivarol Fame 95
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. Sir Thomas Browne Fame 95
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. Brad Pitt Fame 93
Do you want to be famous No Theres something wrong with you she says. Will Christopher Baer Fame 92
Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon Fame 90
If everyone repeated my sayings I would be so famous they wouldnt have to be the least bit clever. Bauvard Fame 89
I awoke one morning and found myself famous. Lord (George Gordon) Byron Fame 89
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 88
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 fame Alfred de Vigny Fame 87
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. Jean Jacques Rousseau Fame 86
I want a billion people to know my name as well as they know their own. I want to clone myself to fame. Jarod Kintz Fame 85
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. Alexander The Great Fame 85
Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind. Virgil Fame 85
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Fame 84
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. William Hazlitt Fame 83
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. Johann von Goethe Fame 83
Fame and rest are utter opposites. Richard Steele Fame 83
Acquaintance lessens fame. Claudius Fame 83
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer Fame 82
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. Blaise Pascal Fame 82
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. Curtis Sittenfeld Fame 81
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! Davy Crockett Fame 81
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. Francois de la Rochefoucauld Fame 80
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon Fame 80
I shall bere your noble fame for ye spake a grete worde and fulfilled it worshipfully. Thomas Malory Fame 80
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes in direction. Dante Fame 80
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? John Keats Fame 78
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. W.H. Auden Fame 77
Fame is a constant effort. Jules Renard Fame 77
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. Charles Caleb Colton Fame 76

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