Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

- Marilyn Monroe

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

- John Wooden

To be great is to be misunderstood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

- H. L. Mencken

The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads -- Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.

- Baruch Spinoza

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

I am not a myth.

- Marlene Dietrich

My garden will never make me famous,
I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

- Ogden Nash

Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

- Matthew Henry

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

- Mark Twain

Fame is morally neutral.

- Edward R. Murrow

Ozymandias
I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.

- Shirley Temple

My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

- Thomas Wolfe

We are the leaves of one branch, the drops of one sea, the flowers of one garden.

- Jean Baptiste Henry Lacordaire



Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

- Marlo Thomas