Fame Quotes

I'm not interested in fame at all.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

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.

Some people can handle fame, some can't.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.

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.

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

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.

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.