Fame is not the glory, virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.
- Vanna Bonta- On being recognized: Not on a regular basis. You`d be surprised how people don`t put two and two together. I was on a plane from New York to L.A. and the only movie that was playing was `Stardust`. And the first 10 minutes of that movie is pretty much just me. I was thinking, "Oh no, this is embarrassing, everyone`s going to be looking at me." And ... nothing! Nothing ... so maybe no one will recognize me in `Caspian` either.
- Ben Barnes- When asked if he has Googled himself: Have I Googled myself? Yeah, well, a little while ago. I don`t like it; I don`t like the Internet. No. It`s not a healthy place to go if you`re in the public eye. Because there`s too many people who have too many opinions about you, and about your acting. And, you know, everyone wants to be a critic. I just don`t really approve of it. I`ve never been on the Internet saying what I think of somebody else`s performance in something. (How do you deal with that?) Well, you have to ignore the really over the top good stuff and you have to ignore the really over the top bad stuff. And kind of be confident in the fact that you know it`s probably somewhere in the middle. And that`s sort of what I`m trying to do at the moment.
- Ben BarnesGlory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
- William ShakespearePopularity? It is glory`s small change.
- Victor HugoGlory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Adam WainwrightHe who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.
- Aaron PipkinNever suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
- Aaron GipsonLiving 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.
- Jessica AlbaI`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.
- Salma HayekMaking music to me is so much more important than being a star. If I could choose whether to be very famous right now or respected and understood a hundred years after I die, I`d choose the second option.
- Christine AndersonMy career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
- Leonardo DiCaprioI don`t get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.
- Jennifer LopezIf you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
- Oprah WinfreyIt is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert EinsteinI consider myself more exportant than important.
- Vanna BontaComplexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.
- Dennis PragerWhat is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
- Lord ByronFame is the thirst of youth.
- Lord ByronFame is a bee. / It has a song / It has a sting / Ah, too, it has a wing.
- Emily DickinsonI`m never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don`t do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don`t even do that any more.
- Dorothy ParkerRather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Henry David ThoreauI always thought I should be treated like a star.
- MadonnaIf you`re holding out for universal popularity, I`m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
- Andy KlotzFame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal
- Don Williams, JrThe talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowFame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
- Horace GreeleyThe glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
- Janet WatsonFame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
- Michel de MontaigneNothing Could be better
- Emma EvansFame just is Madness sometimes other times it`s acure from Madness
- Emma Evans"I never thought as a six-year-old I could make that noise with the turn of the head, you know, it`s amazing - I get into the middle of that, I really appreciate it, I lap it up, you know."
- Gerard Butler"In between premieres, it`s not something I seek. I love to live my own life and do my thing but you come here and it`s a time when you realise, `What I do affects people, they like you, they appreciate it` and you can`t ever turn up your nose to that."
- Gerard ButlerI joke with that because it`s way better to be appreciated than to not be appreciated. For anybody to blow it off and dismiss it, they`re either insane or they`re just not being honest or they`re being extremely arrogant. ... As you`re saying that, my natural response is going to be, "Well, I don`t really see it." But then again, I do — just on the street sometimes."
- Gerard ButlerIt`s been a mixture of learning to adjust to slightly different realities in terms of your career, how you`re viewed by the industry and the public and in terms of how you`re viewed when you walk down the bloody street. It`s been a mixture of coming to terms with that and then relaxing into it and really enjoying it.
- Gerard Butler“It is a little more difficult to be private.”
- Gerard Butler"With fame, you are no more a person. You are a commodity and as a commodity you have to sell yourself everyday. Every single day you are marketing yourself, which is a very scary thought to live by. To be very honest, most of the time people don`t figure out who I am with my glasses on. I am hardly the person that you see on billboards. But it gives me immense pleasure if a stranger comes to me and wants my autograph. That means that you are recognised by your work outside your social circle too. Actually people you hang out with and socialise with every day never see your work."
- Amna Haq"Hey, if your fan base is 12-year-olds, you are one, so deal with it," Brody says. "We all don`t have to be on `7th Heaven` to be a role model, so take a little responsibility."
- Adam BrodyIf I die tomorrow the exact same thing that has happened to Marilyn Monroe in the U.S. will happen to me too:for as long as she was alive and well people looked down upon her and considered her some sort of inferior "product".The moment she died,scenes from her movieswere spliced together and evrybody said "look,what an amazing phaenomenon,what a great actress she was."
- Aliki Vougiouklaki“My favorite thing about being famous... it`s not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It`s still pretty tough.”
- Aaron Carter The fame of the person is equal to the sum of his enemies but his friends.
I thank God that I have more fame for my friends that for enemies.
When your record sells 50,000 or 60,000 copies, you`re hooking up with bigger women in, like, southern Ohio. Then, 10 million, 15 million, when the sales went up, the girls got prettier.
