Fame Quotes

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

I'll probably go to London and hide.

I am so happy and proud to learn of Hideo Nomo's election to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. He was quite a pitcher and competitor, but he is also a very special and caring person.

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

The Hall of Fame has strong people.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

Fame's carapace does not allow for easy breathing.

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.

You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.

I do think fame can distort reality. I've always felt that.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.

I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?

I suppose I should understand it [fame] better by this point, but I really don't.

When first the college rolls receive his name, The young enthusiast quilts his ease for fame; Through all his veins the fever of renown Burns from the strong contagion of the gown

I never do anything normal anyway. I just get other people to do it now.

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

Fame, on its best day, is kind of like a friendly wave from a stranger by the side of the road. And when it's not so good, it's like a long walk home, all alone, with nobody in when you get there.