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.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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.

To many fame comes too late.

Fame is only good for one thing-they will cash your check in a small town.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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!

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

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?

Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

I had it all and blew it.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

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.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I want to be famous everywhere.

Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

Fame is a constant effort

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to "The March of the Women" from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

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 over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Fame hides her head among the clouds.

Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict.

What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all!

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.