Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes

I think fame can come and go.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Celebrity is obscurity biding its time.

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

If someone out there gets his 15 minutes of glory by using my name, so be it.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

Total oblivion is the fate of almost everything in this world. I'm very likely to suffer that same fate; my work will probably not be remembered, and if any of it is, if any of those novels is fated to be one of those novels that is still being read 50 or 100 years after it was written, I've probably already written it.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.

When people don't know me any more or want my autograph, then I'll think about retiring.

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

It doesn't matter how popular an actor you are: nobody will remember you forever.

My reputation precedes me now.

Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.

I want the world to know me. I want to go down in history.

I want to be remembered as a star.