Fame quotes

“And it is up to you to decide if you want to be remembered, or disappear without a trace, like a pitiful grain of sand into a desert of insignificance. To put it plainly. Get your shit together and sort out your priorities.”

Taika Waititi - Adolf

“- August Walker: Is it true Lane gassed a village of 2000 people?
- Ethan Hunt: Yes.
- August Walker: Is it true he brought down an entire passenger plane just to kill one man?
- Ethan Hunt: Yes.
- August Walker: Is it true that he...
- Ethan Hunt: Look, Walker, whatever you've heard, if it makes your skin crawl, it's probably true.”
Henry Cavill - August Walker
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt

“I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because they've been on reality TV or something.”
Damian Lewis

“I should have listened to my mother. She told me only to be in hit shows.”
Barbara Bailey - Dancer

“- Cosmo Brown: The price of fame. You've got the glory, you gotta take the little heartaches that go with it. Now look at me: I've got no fame, I've got no glory, I've got no big mansions, I've got no money! But I've got - what have I got?
- Don Lockwood: I don't know, what have you got?
- Cosmo Brown: I gotta get out of here.”
Donald O'Connor - Cosmo Brown
Gene Kelly - Don Lockwood

“If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that.”
Lucas Hedges

“I definitely didn't have any dreams of grandeur or dreams of becoming an action movie star.”
Ed Skrein

“- Tommy Wiseau: Los Angeles, everybody want to be star. All the pretty boys. They're lining up for the big shot.
- Greg Sestero: Just uh, just have to get lucky, I guess.
- Tommy Wiseau: No. No. It's not luck, Greg. Greg, you have to be the best. You have to be the best you can be. And never give up.”
James Franco - Tommy
Dave Franco - Greg

“The stars are ageless, aren't they?”
Gloria Swanson - Norma Desmond

“There's not much of me for people to follow around. I like maintaining that and I don't seek out fame.”
Rebecca Ferguson

“Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was.”
Robert De Niro - Frank Sheeran

“I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.”
Sean Harris

“- Captain Salazar: You don’t know who I am.
- Captain Hector Barbossa: I’ve heard stories of a mighty Spanish captain, El Matador Del Mar. A man who scourged the sea, hunted and killed thousands of men.
- Captain Salazar: No, no, no, no! Men, no. No, no, no, no. Pirates. Pirates.”
Javier Bardem - Captain Salazar
Geoffrey Rush - Captain Hector Barbossa

“- Jenny Lind: You are the American. I believe I might have heard of you.
- P.T. Barnum: Oh well, If you've heard of me all the way over here, I must have been doing something right.
- Jenny Lind: That, or something very wrong.
- P.T. Barnum: In the world of publicity there is hardly any difference.”
Rebecca Ferguson - Jenny Lind
Hugh Jackman - P.T. Barnum

“You're really lucky, you know that? You didn't have to wait your whole life to do something special.”

Bryan Cranston - Walter White

“- Turner: If you were me, what would you do?
- Chas: I don't know. It depends. It depends who you are. So, I don't know.
- Turner: Who I am? Do you know who you are?”
Mick Jagger - Turner
James Fox - Chas

“- Zelda Spooner: I suppose you have never heard of the Beatles either.
- Dino: Oh sure. And I can sing better than all three of them.
- Zelda Spooner: There are four of them!
- Dino: Oh, haven't you heard? One of them got his hair caught in his guitar and was electrocuted.
- Zelda Spooner: You can make jokes about them but they're young and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Felicia Farr - Zelda
Dean Martin - Dino

“If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting.”
Justin Theroux

“Bucks and mares, cubs and does, welcome to our show of shows! 'Tis my great honor to introduce this evening's renowned guest: the one... the only... Mar - y Poppins!”
Lin-Manuel Miranda - Jack

“I used to be treated like I was a hero, and then they start talking about me like I’m trailer trash. But that’s what this show is about. It’s about rebirth.”
Natalie Portman - Celeste

“I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.”
Eddie Albert

“Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.”
Michael Jackson

“- Benny Murray: Nice ta meetcha' Miss Edwards...
- Samantha: Simpson.
- Benny Murray: Right. I've seen ya plastered all over New York, ya know?
- Samantha: Well, don't spread it around.”

Jack Weston - Benny Murray
Valerie Perrine - Samantha

“- Lawrence Isabella: I've heard a lot about you.
- Joey Rosselini: Yeah? Good things, I hope.”
Ben Stiller - Lawrence Isabella
Adam Baldwin - Joey Rosselini

“I don't think I'm going to be at all famous. I don't think I could handle it. I'd probably go mad, do you know what I mean?”
Amy Winehouse - Amy Winehouse