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“In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted”
― Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling

“You know you’re really famous when there’s rumors about you being gay.”
― Jared Leto

“Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.”
― Aesop, Aesop’s Fables

“For I see not what there is desirable in publick esteeme, were I able to acquire & maintaine it. It would perhaps increase my acquaintance, the thing which I chiefly study to decline.”
― Isaac Newton

“A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Author says he suffered from both "a craving to be famous" and "a horror of being known to like being known.”
― T.E. Lawrence

“Sun glasses are the unofficial celebritiesâ€� uniform.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I'll be a son of a bitch," Patrick said.

Aidan could barely make his eyes move, forcing them from the papers onto him. "What?"

“I make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples' body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I'd almos swear you've never seen those documents before."

"Well," Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what fame and money had cost him. "I'd say you're damn good at your job, because I haven't.”
― Laura Spinella, Perfect Timing

“A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.”
― Max Frisch, Montauk

“Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.”
― John Grisham, The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

“Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.”
― John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

“When people don't gossip or talk about you, you are not making waves.”
― Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

“For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“He might be famous (local newspaper or television) for finding it, true—but if fame takes away the thing it celebrates, then Sebastien would prefer the inspired silence. We’re all famous in our own hearts anyway.”
― Simon Van Booy, The Illusion of Separateness

“It is not our fame or wealth that puts us in danger; it is our arrogance and egotism”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“A famous name has this peculiarity that it becomes gradually smaller especially in natural sciences where each succeeding discovery invariably overshadows what precedes.”
― Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

“He was the best shot in India, and I expect that there are few better in London. Have you heard the name?'
'No, I have not.'
'Well, well, such is fame!”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“She cracked a sexy smile with a side of condescension. “Jack, I’m not looking to know you.â€�
No, she wasn’t, unless you counted biblically. She was looking for the guy who indiscriminately dated and bedded famous women. A guy whose life could be reduced to adjectives, most of them unflattering. That guy.”
― Kate Meader, Feel the Heat

“Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame...”
― Amit Abraham

“Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot.

They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.”
― Shay Caroline, Gemini/Scorpio/Capricorn

“Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I make a living, even life and death judgments, by reading peoples' body language, their raw reactions to situations. And I'd almos swear you've never seen those documents before."

"Well," Aidan said, swallowing hard, calculating what fame and money had cost him. "I'd say you're damn good at your job, because I haven't.”
― Laura Spinella, Perfect Timing

“Most people inherit success and fame; if you have earned it piece by piece you will know how hard it is.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“I grew up watching my father make plates that featured penises as centerpieces. Pink, proud, and stiff, encircled by cerulean Greek key, Dad’s creations made me feel scared and small. I saw a private part of the man I could not measure up to. At six years old, I lived in a world shaded by his ceramic glazes. There was love and color, but anger, too, in the way he kneaded his clay, palms pounding the rich, wet earth into shapes of his choosing.”
― Royal Young, Fame Shark

“Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.”
― Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

“Climbing towards fame, recognition and popularity is very much pleasant; but all its sweetness does not count even for a day of going down.”
― M.F. Moonzajer