Peter Benchley Quotes

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

I've sort of heard that 'it' girl thing, but not really. Hearing it from a few people doesn't solidify it in my mind and I wouldn't know how to solidify that title. It's so elusive and what does it mean, I don't know?

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.

Quest for popularity is probably a disqualification for greatness.

He whose honor is rooted in popular approval must, day by day, anxiously strive, act, and scheme in order to retain his reputation.

How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!.

The phenomenon of fame is literally invisible, but it influences and dominates your life if you aren't careful.

I was stuck with the dark glasses. They took all these pictures that went around the world. I guess once you become successful, you don't want to change anything too drastically.

Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.

If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

To most people who have a point of view, merely being on TV is an intrinsic good.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

To whatever degree you have as a celebrity or notoriety, there are people who see you as an opinion leader.

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

I feel like clout is something that builds up on your teeth.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.