Fame Quotes

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.

Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I'd be able to say 'thank you' to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It's going to be like a dream come true.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.

I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.