Fame Quotes

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.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge, and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it's kind of a lifestyle and it's easy to get caught up in it - you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone's doing a certain thing... It's tough.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

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.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

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.