Fame quotes

“- John Van Horne: I'm just an untalented old has-been.
- Dorothy Michaels: Were you ever famous?
- John Van Horne: No.
- Dorothy Michaels: Then how can you be a has-been?”
George Gaynes - John Van Horn
Dustin Hoffman - Dorothy Michaels

“- Gil Renard: Don't you talk back to me. You show me some respect. Without people like me, you're nothing. We're the ones that get you your 40 fuckin' million!
- Bobby Rayburn: Look, what do you want?
- Gil Renard: What do I want? I want every time they think of you they're gonna think of me.”

Robert De Niro - Gil Renard
Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“- Arthur: So what happens now?
- Vortigern: You know what happens now. You're quickly becoming a legend.”
Charlie Hunnam - Arthur
Jude Law - Vortigern

“In our line of work, it's not good to be famous. Anonymous is the goal.”
Chazz Palminteri - Angelo Bruno

“- Riggan: This is my career, this is my chance to do some work that actually means something.
- Sam: Means something to who? You had a career before the third comic book movie, before people began to forget who was inside the bird costume. You're doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich old white people...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Keaton - Riggan
Emma Stone - Sam

“- Dr. Webster: I think you should have your own name, a name that is not like a famous person's.
- Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Bob!
- Dr. Webster: Bob.
- Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga: Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga. Anyone famous named Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga?
- Dr. Webster: I doubt it.”
Tom Skerritt - Dr. Webster
Allan Katz - Bob Maloogaloogaloogaloogalooga

“You're internet famous. That's like the second best thing to being actually famous.”
Stefanie Scott - Kimber

“You're anything but invisible. You're big. You're kind of a great mess. It's like a candle burning at both ends, but it's beautiful. No amount of booze or weed or attitude is going to hide that.”

Edward Norton - Mike

“Greetings, citizens. We are living in the age where the pursuit of all values other than money, success, fame and glamour, has either been discredited or destroyed. Money, success, fame, glamour.”

Macaulay Culkin - Michael Alig

“- The Journalist: Most writers want to be famous.
- Jackie Kennedy: You want to be famous?
- The Journalist: No, I'm fine as I am.
- Jackie Kennedy: You should prepare yourself, this article will bring you a great deal of attention.
- The Journalist: Ah. In that case, any advice for me?
- Jackie Kennedy: Yes. Don't marry the president.”

Billy Crudup - The Journalist
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy

“- Jackie Kennedy: I wrote him a letter. That night, before we moved the casket to the Capitol. Do you know what I wrote? That I wanted to die. I wanted to die.
- The Priest: I understand.
- Jackie Kennedy: Do you?
- The Priest: I do. Unless you are asking permission.
- Jackie Kennedy: No, only crass, self-indulgent people kill themselves. No, I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Natalie Portman - Jackie Kennedy
Sir John Hurt - The Priest

“I was the first star who ever came out of the water looking wet.”
Bette Davis

“When a legend grows up around a man there is often no means of pruning it, even within his family.”
Jane Seymour Fonda On Henry Fonda

“A nude girl is a nude girl and that's that; and there's no way you can make a star out of a nude girl.”
Frank Capra

“When people are watching, it makes you a better person. So if everybody was on TV all the time, everybody would be better people. But, if everybody was on TV all the time, there wouldn't be anybody left to watch, and that's where I get confused.”
Alison Folland - Lydia Mertz

“- Pierre Peders: I don't fuck celebrities.
- Katya: Well, I don't fuck nobodies.”
Steve Buscemi - Pierre Peders
Sienna Miller - Katya

“Remember you are a star. Never go across the alley even to dump garbage unless you are dressed to the teeth.”

Cecil Blount DeMille

“Starting tomorrow there will be hourly tours of Roxy Carmichael's birthplace. You'll see where Roxy slept and where she ate during her wonder years. You'll also see pictures of her beloved dog, Bonkers.”
Micole Mercurio - Louise Garweski

“Every time I walk into a restaurant I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh.”
Charles Laughton

“Once you are a star actor, people start asking you questions about politics, astronomy, archaeology and birth-control.”
Marlon Brando

“Would people applaud me if I were a good plumber?”
Marlon Brando

“Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.”
Leslie William Nielsen On Laurence Olivier

“I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.”
Alan Ladd

“I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.”
Alan Ladd

“She didn’t want to be famous. She wanted to be happy.”
Clark Gable On Jean Harlow