Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. "
Emily Dickinson
Celebrity
Famous
Punishment
Related Quotes:
" I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. "
Mindy Kaling
Job
Writing
Great
" Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. "
Bennett Cerf
Like
Who
Crazy
" I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. "
America Ferrera
Famous
Celebrity
Dressed
" We don't feel like we're famous. We just feel like we're doing what we love. "
Sasha Banks
Just
Famous
Feel
" Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned. "
Emily Dickinson
Luck
Chance
Expensive
" When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children. "
Ann Hood
Life
Childhood
Famous
" There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. "
Matt Damon
Think
Famous
Know
" There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. "
Ben Carson
Happiness
Passion
Depression
" Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. "
Dolph Lundgren
Famous
Think
Just
" Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be. "
Jessica Alba
Job
Know
You
" My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything. "
Martha Plimpton
Me
Anything
Like
" You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. "
Whoopi Goldberg
Know
Think
You
" Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh. "
Meg Cabot
Show
Laugh
People
" People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.' "
Linda Thompson
Thinking
People
Peace
" I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. "
James Marsh
Words
Water
School
" Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. "
Erica Jong
Famous
People
Fame
" Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. "
David Hasselhoff
Way
I Can
Famous
" My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. "
Aaron Carter
Famous
Pretty
Tough
" I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house. "
Rohan Marley
Live
Famous
Lifestyle
" I became famous almost before I had a craft. "
Farrah Fawcett
Almost
Before
Had
" Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek. "
Aidan Quinn
Famous
Celebrity
Seek
" One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique. "
Ken Follett
Me
Now
People
" I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed. "
Jay-Z
Reach
Ride
Short
" I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. "
Wale
Famous
Look
Me
" The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government. "
Edmund Morgan
Government
Brand
Congress
" When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course. "
Nadia Comaneci
I Am Happy
Me
Famous
" Most of what Hawaii has to offer is no secret. Pipeline is probably the most famous wave in the world. "
Kelly Slater
World
Wave
Secret
" It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. "
David Cassidy
Famous
Place
People
" You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me. "
Orlando Bloom
How
Famous
You
" Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. "
Arthur Schopenhauer
Become
Way
Ability