Fame Quotes

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

Fame attracts lunatics.

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?

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.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

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.

I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.

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.

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.

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

I don't play golf for fame.

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

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

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

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.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.