Fame Quotes

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal

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

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

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

When I was 18 I was an emotional wreck and I couldn't imagine having to deal with some kind of fame.

No matter how much fame you have, it's not something that belongs to you. If I'm famous, that doesn't belong to me-that belongs to you. If you can't remember who I am, I'm no longer famous.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move.

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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 can be annoying, but there are perks too.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

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.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

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.

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit of fame like it’s sunshine.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.