Fame Quotes

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

Fame is a constant effort.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

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.

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

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.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

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.

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.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

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.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.