Fame Quotes

I think the contribution people make is not proportionate to their fame or success. In fact, I think the relation is often inverse.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame.

Fame is worth less than service.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

[Andy Cohen] enjoy your fame more than anyone I know.

I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

You should always have a product that has nothing to do with who you are or what people think about you... so that you never start thinking that your product is you, or your fame or your aura.

The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

Fame separates you from life.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.

It's harder to maintain that internet kind of fame. It requires daily work, as opposed to a movie star who can make a movie once every two years and stay in the public eye. I respect it.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it.

I'd pick fortune over fame any day.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

I think fame can come and go.

Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.

It doesnt matter about money and fame and whatever. I really dont care about that. My thing is, Im happy that Im able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both is supreme glory, to do either is enduring fame.

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

I think the people who are out there for fame get themselves in a lot of trouble.

Love is better than Fame.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

A nation will not count the sacrifice it makes, if it supposes it is engaged in a struggle for its fame, its influence and its existence.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it.

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.

How men hate waiting while their wives shop for clothes and trinkets; how women hate waiting, often for much of their lives, while their husbands shop for fame and glory.

When I was better known than her, she put my name in that tent. I was asked to do Celebrity Big Brother, but why should I? We live in an age where fame is not related to what you do.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.

Just in time for Bob Dylan to recoil from the attention, leave the city for Woodstock, and turn his back on fame.

It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.

I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.

I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.

When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.