Fame Quotes
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
Acquaintance lessens fame. (Quote by - Claudius)
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't. (Quote by - Debby Boone)
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago. (Quote by - Billy Eckstine)
The day will come when everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. (Quote by - Chuang-tzu)
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful. (Quote by - Gene Tierney)
'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does. (Quote by - Waylon Jennings)
I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. (Quote by - Cate Blanchett)
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. (Quote by - Fred A. Allen)
It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it. (Quote by - Jane Badler)
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this. (Quote by - Scott Patterson)
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad. (Quote by - John Corbett)
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price. (Quote by - Jason Patric)
To many fame comes too late. (Quote by - Luis De Camoens)
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years. (Quote by - Jane Haddam)
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain. (Quote by - Robert Blair)
But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams. (Quote by - Robin Yount)
The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today. (Quote by - Hank Stram)
I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like. (Quote by - Otis Blackwell)
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. (Quote by - Voltaire)
When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise. (Quote by - Natasha Henstridge)
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness. (Quote by - Mary MacLane)
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. (Quote by - William Tecumseh Sherman)
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes! (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame. (Quote by - Brenda Lee)
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver. (Quote by - Philip Roth)
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. (Quote by - Alan Alda)
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there. (Quote by - Mike Weir)
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. (Quote by - Don Johnson)
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame. (Quote by - Annette Funicello)
Fame and success are very different things. (Quote by - Enya)
Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame. (Quote by - Sir John Denham)
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves? (Quote by - John Keats)
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen. (Quote by - Michael Strahan)
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar! (Quote by - James Beattie)
Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it. (Quote by - Jo Stafford)
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. (Quote by - John Wooden)
There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone. (Quote by - Jules Ellinger)
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it. (Quote by - Francois De La Rochefoucauld)
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. (Quote by - John Webster)
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune. (Quote by - Amelia Earhart)
Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this. (Quote by - Bruce Willis)
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke. (Quote by - Mike Tyson)
I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame. (Quote by - Noel Redding)
To myself alone do I owe my fame. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich. (Quote by - Dirk Benedict)
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. (Quote by - David Mallet)
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy. (Quote by - Erika Slezak)
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. (Quote by - Dante)
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it. (Quote by - Olivier Martinez )
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. (Quote by - Edmund Burke )
As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl. (Quote by - Terry Bradshaw )
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together. (Quote by - Jackie Collins)
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Fame is the thirst of youth. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care. (Quote by - Brigitte Bardot)
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
I feel like fame is wasted on me. (Quote by - Ben Affleck)
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game. (Quote by - Rafael Palmeiro)
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. (Quote by - Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro)
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. (Quote by - Marcus T. Cicero)
I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable. (Quote by - Aidan Quinn)
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. (Quote by - David Cassidy)
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known. (Quote by - Confucius)
People should realize we're jerks just like them. (Quote by - Edward De Bono)
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. (Quote by - Emma Watson)
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. (Quote by - Jack Nicholson)
Fame doesn't end loneliness. (Quote by - Claire Danes)
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. (Quote by - Alanis Morissette)
Fame is only good for one thing- they will cash your check in a small town. (Quote by - Truman Capote)
I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life. (Quote by - Julia Roberts)
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. (Quote by - Friedrich Schiller )
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. (Quote by - William Gilmore Simms)
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. (Quote by - Ludwig Tieck)
Fame is a constant effort (Quote by - Jules Renard)
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money. (Quote by - Wilhelm Steinitz)
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. (Quote by - Julie Burchill)
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way. (Quote by - Billy Corgan)
Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times. (Quote by - Nick Mancuso)
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
We always hear about the haves and the have-nots. Why don't we hear about the doers and the do-nots. (Quote by - Thomas Sewell)
Fame hides her head among the clouds. (Quote by - Virgil)
My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that. (Quote by - Jimmy Carl Black)
Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. (Quote by - Socrates)
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny. (Quote by - French Proverb)
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music. (Quote by - Tom Petty)
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. (Quote by - Alexander Smith)
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (Quote by - Bernie Worrell)
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name! (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
How vain, without the merit, is the name. (Quote by - Homer)
I awoke one morning and found myself famous. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all. (Quote by - Clive James)
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it. (Quote by - David Duchovny)
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. (Quote by - Robert South)
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude. (Quote by - Juliette Lewis)
We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me. (Quote by - Donnie Wahlberg)
The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame. (Quote by - Fay Vincent)
A sign of celebrity is often that their name is worth more than their services. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction. (Quote by - Moses Mendelssohn )
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. (Quote by - Annette Funicello)
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
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. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. (Quote by - Marquis De Vauvenargues)
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly. (Quote by - Siobhan Fahey)
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right. (Quote by - Linda Evans)
I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are. (Quote by - Tito Jackson)
The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. (Quote by - Clay Aiken)
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame. (Quote by - Dennis Eckersley)
The highest form of vanity is love of fame. (Quote by - George Santayana)
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life. (Quote by - Tobey Maguire)
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. (Quote by - Cato The Elder)
In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame. (Quote by - Donatella Versace)
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? (Quote by - Chanakya)
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that. (Quote by - Lesley Garrett )
Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that. (Quote by - Michael Hutchence)
People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be. (Quote by - Sherry Stringfield)
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Sartre)
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart. (Quote by - Sammy Davis, Jr.)
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. (Quote by - William McFee)
My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it. (Quote by - Ville Valo )
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort)
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Even the best things are not equal to their fame. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness. (Quote by - Brigitte Bardot)
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it. (Quote by - Sir Thomas Browne)
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind. (Quote by - George William Curtis)
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. (Quote by - Eric Idle )
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity. (Quote by - Antoine Rivarol)
The present condition of fame is merely fashion. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from. (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind. (Quote by - Dominique Wilkins)
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. (Quote by - Sun Tzu)
I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff. (Quote by - Matthew Broderick)
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that. (Quote by - Sheryl Crow)
Read but o'er the Stories Of men most fam'd for courage or for counsaile And you shall find that the desire of glory Was the last frailty wise men put of; Be they presidents. (Quote by - Jan van olden Barneveldt)
I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half. (Quote by - Zakk Wylde)
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it. (Quote by - Jerry B. Jenkins)
I don't think about my fame very much. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. (Quote by - Miles Davis)
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. (Quote by - Al Goldstein)
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker. (Quote by - Wade Boggs)
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in the role. (Quote by - Edward De Bono)
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good. (Quote by - Jamie Lee Curtis)
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. (Quote by - Leonardo DiCaprio)
I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. (Quote by - Curt Flood)
The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect. (Quote by - Marquis De Sade)
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. (Quote by - John Milton)
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. (Quote by - Alexander The Great)
I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!! (Quote by - Marc Almond )
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame. (Quote by - Elle Macpherson)
I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy. (Quote by - Eric Dickerson)
The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown. (Quote by - William Blake)
Popular applause veers with the wind. (Quote by - John Bright)
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. (Quote by - Leszczynski Stanislaus)
Each man has his appointed day: short and irreparable in the brief life of all, but to extend our fame by our deeds, this is the work of mankind. (Quote by - Virgil)
I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well. (Quote by - Jim Otto)
What desire for fame attends both great and small; better be damned than mentioned not at all! (Quote by - John Wolcot)
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? (Quote by - Abraham Cowley)
I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that. (Quote by - Steve Guttenberg)
I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81. (Quote by - John Lurie)
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. (Quote by - Van Morrison)
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature. (Quote by - Jerry Rubin )
He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. (Quote by - Ed O'Brien)
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship. (Quote by - Major Taylor )
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music. (Quote by - Buck Owens)
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in. (Quote by - Nancy Sinatra)
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. (Quote by - Truman Capote)
I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom. (Quote by - Brenda Blethyn)
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself. (Quote by - John Fahey)
The idea was to come up with a song that had the same kind of feeling and inspiration as Fame and yet be different from Fame. I certainly didn't want to do Fame II. (Quote by - Irene Cara)
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do. (Quote by - Jonathan Frid)
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. (Quote by - Adam Clarke)
I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame. (Quote by - Christine Lahti)
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. (Quote by - Jean De La Bruyere)
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. (Quote by - Sallust)
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. (Quote by - Robert Mapplethorpe)
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. (Quote by - Lucius Accius)
Andy Warhol made fame more famous. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not. (Quote by - Mandy Moore)
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing. (Quote by - Sharon Stone)
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course. (Quote by - Charlie Sheen)
Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it! (Quote by - Ryan Seacrest)
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States. (Quote by - C. Wright Mills)
I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing. (Quote by - Angelina Jolie)
Fame is morally neutral. (Quote by - Edward R. Murrow)
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill. (Quote by - Kelsey Grammer)
A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts. (Quote by - Al Goldstein)
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. (Quote by - Shirley Manson )
Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. (Quote by - Horace Greeley)
It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up. (Quote by - Emmitt Smith)
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now. (Quote by - Edie Brickell)
Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)
When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
And what after all is everlasting fame? Altogether vanity. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. (Quote by - Alan Bennett)
We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist. (Quote by - Patrick Swayze)
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light. (Quote by - Sallust)
Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. (Quote by - Roger McGuinn)
Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have. (Quote by - Junior Johnson )
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else. (Quote by - Nikki Cox)
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. (Quote by - Mary Austin)
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen. (Quote by - John Updike)
Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row. (Quote by - Ralph Kiner )
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks. (Quote by - Eminem)
I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently. (Quote by - Malcolm Wilson)
I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me. (Quote by - John Hughes)
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else. (Quote by - Ismail Merchant)
Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. (Quote by - Brad Pitt)
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. (Quote by - Johnny Depp)
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner. (Quote by - Alessandro Del Piero)
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce. (Quote by - Malcolm Wilson)
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done. (Quote by - Peter Cushing)
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign. (Quote by - Publius Cornelius Tacitus)
Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. (Quote by - Wade Boggs)
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Famous people state fame as a cruse and those who have it not look upon it as a dream, hance dreams are cruses. (Quote by - Kazi Shams)
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. (Quote by - Desiderius Erasmus)
You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety. (Quote by - Morgan Brittany)
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash. (Quote by - Jack London)
I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be. (Quote by - George Steinbrenner )
Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage. (Quote by - Scott Hamilton)
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy. (Quote by - Alvin Lee)
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it. (Quote by - Philip Seymour Hoffman)
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed. (Quote by - Barbara Kruger)
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche. (Quote by - Richard O'Brien)
Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold. (Quote by - Vanna Bonta)
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. (Quote by - Gloria Vanderbilt)
Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame. (Quote by - Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont)
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral. (Quote by - Moon Unit Zappa)
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along. (Quote by - Armistead Maupin)
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well. (Quote by - Oliver Herford)
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame. (Quote by - Robert Klein)
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful. (Quote by - Kim Novak)
Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. (Quote by - Vicki Baum)
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. (Quote by - Tacitus)
Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer. (Quote by - Jane Harman)
Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that. (Quote by - Gabriela Sabatini)
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money. (Quote by - John Fahey)
Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job. (Quote by - Kate Bosworth)
Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. (Quote by - Ovid)
Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him. (Quote by - Frank Gifford)
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. (Quote by - Bennett Cerf )
I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind. (Quote by - Charles Sumner)
THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government. (Quote by - Charles Inglis)
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. (Quote by - E. M. Cioran)
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer? (Quote by - Shawn Fanning)
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion. (Quote by - Stephen Rea)
The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better. (Quote by - Dave Winfield)
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it! (Quote by - Davy Crockett)
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life. (Quote by - Oliver Hudson)
At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers. (Quote by - Nick Mancuso )
I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame. (Quote by - Steve Brown)
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life. (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame. (Quote by - June Carter Cash)
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. (Quote by - George Villiers)
A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them. (Quote by - Kathy Griffin)
I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible. (Quote by - Dan Fouts)
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them! (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
If you live for fame, men may turn against you. (Quote by - Matthew Simpson )
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)
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. (Quote by - Jessica Alba)
Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character. (Quote by - Horace Greeley )
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name (Quote by - Kanye West)
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none. (Quote by - Marc Anthony)
I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. (Quote by - Sophia Bush )
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. (Quote by - Gloria Swanson)
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. (Quote by - Leon Askin)
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. (Quote by - Mary MacLane)
I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill. (Quote by - Jessica Cutler)
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either. (Quote by - Bear Bryant)
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to. (Quote by - Trevor Dunn)
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. (Quote by - Edward Young)
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. (Quote by - Michael Musto)
You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with. (Quote by - Omar Epps)
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it. (Quote by - Pliny The Elder)
I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk. (Quote by - Lucas Grabeel)
A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. (Quote by - Richard O'Brien)
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell! (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it. (Quote by - Kelsey Grammer)
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. (Quote by - John Milton)
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. (Quote by - Gene Hackman)
Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. (Quote by - Daniel J. Boorstin)
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. (Quote by - A. A. Milne)
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it. (Quote by - Sonny Bono)
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law. (Quote by - Tina Yothers)
