Wanting to be famous!

[TonyVonTonyus]

Well everyone wants to be known or for that matter remembered. I was actually talking about this with a friend of min earlier. He said that he's rather be successful than famous. But I disagree because with success you have money but it only lasts you your life but with fame people will remember who you were, whether it be because you were extremely good at what you did (Example being Orson Wells) or you were the worst at what you did and didn't want to admit it and still kept on trying. (Ed Wood)

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

The people who become famous, I mean truly famous, do not become famous because they want to. True fame is just a byproduct of doing something great. Fame today is being entertainingly idiotic on TV, but those people will be forgotten quickly when everyone stops seeing them every day. The people who will be remembered are the ones who made the world better in one way or another.

 

[Cheesus333]

I don't want to be famous in the conventional 'red carpet and tabloids' sense, but I'd like to be a respected and popular author. I mean, Stephen King and JK Rowling etc. are all 'famous' but they're not exactly the sort that'll be stalked by paparazzi, or have news of their pregnancies splattered over magazine covers.

I want to be famous for writing, basically. But I don't want my life story to be whored out to shitty TV shows and tacky articles like Katie Price and all those sorts of people. Besides, it's not self-absorbed to want to have a successful, memorable life. Ambitious, yes. Unrealistic, maybe. But if it's a crime to want something better for yourself, then tie me up and shoot me now.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Those people are famous because they cause a lot of drama. The entire cast of Jersy Shore and Real Housewives is only as big as they are because they get into fights ALL OF THE TIME! People like conflict, that's why high-school students immediately go chasing the scene of a fight.
Its not a matter of being shallow, its just giving the gossiping masses what they want and honestly, you gotta give credit to the guy behind most reality TV shows. They're fucking geniuses when it comes to manipulating the masses.

 

[godfist88]

I think the current generation of kids is pretty shallow, there some teenage girls that get pregnant just so they can get get on that one pregnant teen show on MTV.

 

[DocBalance]

Eh, I want to be famous enough that I can make a living purely from writing, but not because of anything fame would afford me other than a stable income doing what I love.

 

[DanielBrown]

I wanted to be a rock star when I was younger!
Anyways, I grew out of those foolish dreams. My goal now is to be economically independant by the age of tomorrow.

To stick a bit on topic;
Yes, people are shallow.
If people are famous for something they've acomplished, then I cheer for them, but if they're just famous for being famous then... bleh.

 

[Plurralbles]

My goal is to be in a history book, so i want to be famous for doing something worth while, not be simply a pop star.

is that shallow? Deal with it fi so.

 

[Admiral Stukov]

I want to take up permanent residence in space. How's that for ambitions?
I just don't get people wanting to be famous. Famous is a biproduct of being very good, or very bad at something.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I wouldn't want to be famous. If I do end up being famous by sheer accident, then I want to be for something I created or have done, not for the TV celebrity bullshit that's been going on as of late.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Of course I'd like to be famous. That would mean I've acheived success in a band (because I'm pretty musical, and that's the only that could conceivably ever make me famous). You have no idea how many people I would sacrifice to the devil to be in a succesful band.

But on the other hand, my goals are more realistic because my braincells can't be counted on one hand.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

Fame is a pipe dream for spastic teenagers who read People and US magazines while wallpapering their room with clippings of Justin Bieber and Taylor Lautner. These people will either eventually become famous in completely the wrong way (we'll call this the Jersey Shore path), or will try desperately to become famous by any means necessary and end up getting a sharp bop across the bonce by the lvl 99 Rogue known as Reality, and his +48 Club of Lifefuckery.

Training to be an actor in a very exclusive program at a studio with a reliable reputation for producing famous people (the good kind of Edward Norton "Hey that guy is talented" famous, not the Snooki "Dear God, why won't she go away" kind of famous), you'd think fame would be a driving factor to my classmates and I, but it couldn't be farther from the truth. People who are really willing to dedicate their lives to a medium that could result in fame (acting, music, writing, etc.) know that the odds of becoming famous are akin to winning the lottery, and put that behind them pretty much as Step 1 of learning their craft.

 

[the rye]

People have no sense of piety, their shallow desire for "fame" is their hubris.