Becoming Famous Quotes:

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Top Management, Management Motivation

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

- Bruno Mars

topic: People, Becoming, Fame, Becoming Famous

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

- Jean Cocteau

source: Jean Cocteau (1964). “The journals of Jean Cocteau”

topic: Dream, Becoming, Poet, Becoming Famous

Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media every day.

- Shemar Moore

source: "Shemar Moore Talks to S&A About Crowdfunding Over $630,000 for His Next Film, Color in Casting, and More". Interview With Jai Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. August 6, 2013.

topic: Media, People, Able, Becoming Famous

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

- Carnie Wilson

topic: Becoming, Strange, Becoming Famous

Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me. Shall I then publish my grief to the world, contribute one more proof for the wretchedness and misery of existence, perhaps discover a new flaw in human life, hitherto unnoticed? I might then reap the rare reward of becoming famous, like the man who discovered the spots on Jupiter. I prefer, however, to keep silent.

- Soren Kierkegaard

source: Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

topic: Grief, Knowledge, Men, Wretchedness, Becoming Famous

It's definitely important to stay true to yourself and stay close to those people who you were close to before [becoming famous]. Family, your friends, and just not let that outside stuff get to you.

- Taylor Lautner

source: "Taylor Lautner Interview THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 7, 2009.

topic: Family, People, Important, Stay True To Yourself, Becoming Famous

It was never a goal of mine to become famous. So, I never projected any goals associated with that. But I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

- Boris Kodjoe

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Becoming Famous

It was great fun becoming famous, but I got tired of it.

- Jean Shrimpton

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1999.

topic: Fun, Tired, Becoming, Becoming Famous

I think reality TV now needs a big kick up the a - to get creative and be meaningful, I think. Otherwise, people are becoming famous for having no talent, based on pure exposure. That's the grating part.

- Gordon Ramsay

source: Source: variety.com

topic: Meaningful, Reality, Thinking, Becoming Famous

If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

- Gordon Ramsay

source: Source: www.crushable.com

topic: Nuts, Kitchen, Way, Becoming Famous

After becoming famous once again - a 1976 song, "Hurricane," even marked a return to protest songwriting - [Bob] Dylan got addicted to drugs, found Jesus, left Jesus, and put out a lot of swill.

- Bob Dylan

source: Source: www.thedailybeast.com

topic: Song, Jesus, Drug, Becoming Famous

I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.

- Linda D. Thompson

topic: Thinking, People, Spotlight, Becoming Famous

Sometimes it's frustrating if I'm out with the kids and have to deal with the paparazzi. That comes with it though. But it was fun becoming famous. I mean, I even wanted to one of the kids in FAME when I was growing up.

- Victoria Beckham

source: Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

topic: Growing Up, Fun, Mean, Becoming Famous

I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded

- Kristen Bell

topic: Disappointment, Giving, Advice, Becoming Famous

It means a lot to me that people appreciate what I do. That's why I give a lot of importance to my fans and I like to maintain a certain proximity to them. I already feel very thankful that people enjoy my work so much, and becoming famous is not my ultimate goal. I think it's important to keep a good balance between what I want to do and what people want to hear; otherwise I might fall into the dark side.

- Shook

source: Source: www.atickettosomewhere.com

topic: Fall, Mean, Dark, Becoming Famous, Very Thankful

Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal.

- Florence King

topic: People, Achievement, Becoming, Fatal Flaws, Becoming Famous

Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.

- George Meredith

topic: Book, Diaries, Her Beauty, Becoming Famous

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.

- Steve Vai

topic: Successful, Rocks, Insane, Rock Musicians, Becoming Famous

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

- Macy Gray

source: "It's a Macy, Macy world" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2001.

topic: Records, Becoming, Selling, Becoming Famous

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

- Lynda Barry

topic: Art, Thinking, People, Becoming Famous

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out.

- Jarvis Cocker

topic: Dream, Taken, Thinking, Going To Heaven, Becoming Famous

My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people to listen to me. In everything I do ... my aim is to make people listen. I want to communicate the things that I love and in which I believe, because I think that people can derive a general benefit from them. What I really want is success in a philosophical sense: I want people to grasp something of the ideas and hopes which I express in painting.

- Antoni Tapies

source: Julia Brown, Helen Frankenthaler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1998). “After Mountains and Sea: Frankenthaler 1956-1959”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

topic: Believe, Philosophical, Thinking, Listen To Me, Becoming Famous

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

- Suzanne Farrell

source: "Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

topic: Commitment, Opportunity, Dancing, Becoming Famous