Fame Quotes

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.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade - gigolo - John Forbes Kerry is one of the all-time greats. He's in the Gigolo Hall of Fame. See, a really good gigolo might snag one heiress in a lifetime with a nine-figure trust fund. Kerry has married two. When it comes to gigolos, he's Steve Jobs.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

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.

I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.

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.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

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.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

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.

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.