Lasting Fame Quotes

They only name things after you when you're dead or really old.

I want to be somebody, a person, first that people remember, but also, I want music that I release to still be around. I don't want it to just be cool for a second and be gone.

People seem to think that I'm not aware of how people perceive me. But I'm the one that has to talk about 'Police Academy' all day long 27 years later. I'm totally aware of it.

Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.

When I'm dead, gone or whatever, people will always remember my name and the music I did during my time.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

Andy Warhol said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Facebook is exactly like that except you're not really famous and your 15 minutes goes on forever.

Being cast in marble is something that every Vice President looks forward to. It’s not only a high honor, but it’s our only shot at being remembered.

I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

I'm all about leaving a legacy behind and trying to cement myself as one of the greats. I don't just want to be remembered as the guy who beat Michael Phelps at the 2012 London Olympics - a one-hit wonder - I want to be an inspiration to the kids.

If you want to become a myth, you had better die young.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

To be immortalized in a ride is a very cooI thing.

'Doctor Who' would be overnight fame that would last for three years, and then what? I'm in this for the long term.

Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.

When you're famous, you're always famous. It doesn't go away.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

I want to be one of the greats. I feel like the money and all that is going to come, but I want to be a name that, like, when you say Nas or Jay Z, that's forever.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.

If you're a songwriter, you want to write a song like "Oh Yeah" that radically shifts everything. You can definitely retire on that song. You want to have something you can put in your songbook that everybody can recognize, whether it's a good or bad thing.

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.