Fame Quotes

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.

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

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.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

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.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.