Fame Quotes

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.

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.