Fame Quotes

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.

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.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behavior.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you're doing it for fame and money, don't even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.

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.