Fame Quotes

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.

Everything was handed to me - looks, fame, wealth, honour, love. I rarely had to fight for anything

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.

I never thought I'd be on the same stage as Kiss.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

For a good man fame is always a problem.

I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.

Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

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

Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

I actually can't think of anything worse than being famous... Fame really distorts your perception of yourself.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

When Grease and Fame came out, people thought they were cheesy.

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.