“Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.”
“The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.”
“A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services.”
“'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!”
“Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”
“It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.”
“A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.”
“After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”
“It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.”
“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.”
“The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.”
“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
“Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.”
“Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.”
“What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.”
“There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.”
“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.”
“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”
“Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.”
“What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!”
“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 like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.”
“We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.”
“Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.”
“When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
“Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.”
“May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.”
“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.”
“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”
“A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.”