Fame Quotes

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

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.

I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

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.

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.