Fame Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.

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

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

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

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 man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

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

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

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.

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Fame is like a suffocating castle sieged by the enemy.

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

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

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

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care

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

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.