Fame Quotes

That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade - gigolo - John Forbes Kerry is one of the all-time greats. He's in the Gigolo Hall of Fame. See, a really good gigolo might snag one heiress in a lifetime with a nine-figure trust fund. Kerry has married two. When it comes to gigolos, he's Steve Jobs.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

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.