Fame quotes

“- Preston: There's Van Gogh. Degas. Rodin. They didn't have agents. How'd they get so successful?
- Maddox: They died.”
James Remar - Preston
Philip Lenkowsky - Maddox

“Celebrity marriages. They never last, do they?”

Eddie Murphy - Donkey

“- Colin Clark: Let me protect you from all this.
- Marilyn Monroe: What are you gonna do? Marry me?
- Colin Clark: Why not? You could quit this. Forget Marilyn Monroe. Forget Hollywood. Let it all go.”
Eddie Redmayne - Colin Clark
Michelle Williams - Marilyn Monroe

“It isn't easy remaining calm in the face of excessive praise from The Daily Telegraph.”

Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey

“When people hear the name Walt Disney they think family friendly, even though Disney gives benefits to faggots.”
James Woods - Hank Joyce

I do a back flip, save the guy from his heart attack, and everybody starts calling me a hero, and I'm like, "You know what? I don't do it for the fame, it's what I love to do. I'm a doctor, uh, screw you".

Robert Benfer - Dr. Bob

“You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.”
Shannyn Sossamon

“For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.”
Carla Gugino

“I was thinking about becoming a Scientologist. They're always famous, you know. Is there like an audition or something? I could do a monologue from Ron L. Hubbard.”
Kam Heskin - Carrie Carson

“Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.”
Tom Everett Scott

“I always chose movies that I thought would fail, so that I wouldn't have to deal with the fame thing. ”
Barbara Harris

“I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.”
Ethan Suplee

“Stop telling lies about me and I'll stop telling the truth about you.”
Michael Douglas - Gordon Gekko

“Make a wish, and see yourself on stage, inside out, a tangle of garlands in your hair. Course, you are pleasantly surprised.”
Ewan McGregor - Curt Wild

“I love famous people! They're even better than the real thing, ya know?”
Sheri Moon Zombie - Baby

“Where'd my youth go? Why didn't fame hold off old age and death? Why the hell did I leave the fame in the first place and do I want it back, and could I have it back? And if I could, would it make any damned difference?”
Bruce Campbell - Elvis Presley

People look at politicians and celebrities on the TV and the newspapers, glossy magazines - what do they see? "I'm just like them". That's what they say. "I could be any one of them". Well guess what, you can't.
Kevin Spacey - Jack Abramoff

“- Mike Shiner: [to Riggan] Don't tell me how to do my job. This is my town, and to be honest, most people don't give a shit about you here.
- Lady in Bar: Hey, you're Riggan Thompson, right? Would you mind having a picture with us here?”
Edward Norton - Mike

“- Peter Appleton: Tell me again what a great guy Luke was, 'cause God I haven't heard that enough!
- Adele Stanton: He wouldn've stood up to them.
- Peter Appleton: Yeah well, he's not here... to vouch for that, is he? We have to take your word for it! And forgive me but everybody's memory of Luke is a little rose-colored in this town. Besides,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton
Laurie Holden - Adele Stanton

“- Chad: If you play basketball, you'll end up on the cereal box. If you sing in musicals, you'll end up in my mom's refrigerator.
- Troy Bolton: Why would she put this picture in your refrigerator?
- Chad: I don't know, one of her crazy diet ideas. Look, I don't attempt to understand the female mind, Troy.”
Corbin Bleu - Chad Danforth
Zac Efron - Troy Bolton

“Any star can be devoured by human adoration, sparkle by sparkle.”
Shirley Temple

“I'm the answer to a fucking Trivial Pursuit question.”

Michael Keaton - Riggan

“History teaches us that men behave wisely once they've exhausted all other alternatives. For most rock bands, the pursuit of wisdom's a low priority compared to fame, fortune and fornication.”
Billy Connolly - Hughie

“People recognize me sometimes. Some are dicks. I should cool out a little, I guess. I mean, I'm not just this two-dimensional guy they recognize. I do have a relationship to them. I let them know what they have to deal with. I guess that's why they think they know me. But they don't, really.”
Nicolas Cage - David Spritz

“Signor Lassparri comes from a very famous family. His mother was a well-known bass singer. His father was the first man to stuff spaghetti with bicarbonate of soda, thus causing and curing indigestion at the same time.”
Groucho Marx - Otis B. Driftwood