Fame quotes

What am I supposed to feel here? Sorry for you because you're beautiful? Because you made ten thousand a minute doing fuckin' nothing? "Oh it was so hard, so terrible, they treated me so bad". You had a free ride. And you fuckin' blew it.

Adina Porter - Girl at Group Therapy

“No matter how powerful or successful you become, true happiness may not follow. Think of Marilyn, sweet Marilyn Monroe. The whole world loved her so, but she was so very, very alone...”
Shirley MacLaine - Mary Kay

“- Richard M. Nixon: Did you ever mess around with Marilyn Monroe?
- Elvis Presley: No, sir.
- Richard M. Nixon: The Kennedys did, you know. Hoover played me the tape.”
Bob Gunton - Richard M. Nixon
Rick Peters - Elvis Presley

“- Arthur Rock: What the hell makes you think you can get him? Why would he ever leave Pepsi?
- Steve Jobs: Nobody remembers the world best soda salesman.”

J. K. Simmons - Arthur Rock
Ashton Kutcher - Steve Jobs

“Isn't it a lovely thing to live with great courage and to die leaving an everlasting fame? Come, Macedonians, why do you retreat? Do you want to live forever?”
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“I am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by Happy Days fans. It has and will always be a pleasure and a honor for me to be a part of it.”
Erin Moran

I've always just loved to kill. I really enjoyed it. But then I got famous, and - it's just too hard for me. And so many witnesses. I mean, everybody recognized me. I couldn't even lurk anymore. I'd hear, "Who's that lurking over there? Isn't that Merv Griffin?". So I came to Europe to kill. And it's really worked out very well for me.
Merv Griffin - Himself - The Elevator Killer

“By God, Helen, that's as good as it gets. You were born to be a star.”

Jack Nicholson - Francis Phelan

“- Roxie Hart: You're, the Velma Kelly. I was there the night you got arrested.
- Velma Kelly: Yeah? You and half of Chicago.”
Renee Zellweger - Roxie Hart
Catherine Zeta-Jones - Velma Kelly

“Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige.”
Edward Norton - Mike

“- Bartholomew Bogue: Chisolm. Do I know that name?
- Sam Chisolm: You should know it from your obituary.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Bartholomew Bogue
Denzel Washington - Chisolm

“- Alfred Hitchcock: I'm under extraordinary pressures on this picture and the least you can do is give me your full support.
- Alma Reville: Full support! We've mortgaged our house! I'm your wife! I celebrate with you when the reviews are good. I cry for you when they are bad! I put up with all those people who look through me as if I were...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philip Anthony Hopkins - Alfred Hitchcock
Helen Mirren - Alma Reville

“- Henry 'Razor' Sharp: Look at us!
- Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen: Yeah, look at us! We're not dead! Everyone's laughing at us! The whole world's laughing at us! But we're not dead! In fact, I feel more alive now than I ever felt!”
Sylvester Stallone - Henry 'Razor' Sharp
Robert De Niro - Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen

“- Doug: You are in training my son.
- Brian: In training for what?
- Doug: For stardom. No matter how liberal this world may become, a man will always be judged on the amount of alcohol he can consume, and women will be impressed with it, whether they like it or not!”
Bryan Brown - Doug Coughlin
Tom Cruise - Brian Flanagan

“Jem is glamour and glitter, fashion and fame.”

Ryan Guzman - Rio

“The plane started to rattle and shake, and everyone on board was crying, and praying. And I just sat there. Sat there thinking that when Sam opened that paper it was going to be Clooney's face on the front page. Not mine.”

Michael Keaton - Riggan

“The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.”
Katharine Hepburn

“When I started out I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.”
Katharine Hepburn

“A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.”
Anne Fletcher

“Who the fuck are you? You hate bloggers. You make fun of Twitter. You don't even have a Facebook page. You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You're right. You don't.”

Emma Stone - Sam

“There's no turning back. I must stand fast in my resolve. The world has no use for another scared man. Right now, the world needs a fucking hero.”
Seth Rogen - Ronnie

“I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I’m dead.”
Laura Kightlinger

“Mr. Potter. Our new celebrity. Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? You don't know? Clearly, fame isn't everything, is it?”
Alan Rickman - Professor Snape

“Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more. ”
Kirk Douglas

“Leona, you've gotta stop - you're ruining my career!”

Bette Midler - CC Bloom