Fame Quotes

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

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

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need 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.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Fame and success are very different things.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.