Fame Quotes

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.

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.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

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.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

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.

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.

Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

Fame is a constant effort.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.