Fame Quotes

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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

Fame overcomes everything.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

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

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

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

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?

'The Host' is very much in the same vein as 'Twilight', and there's clearly a huge fan base out there. But I can't imagine myself being as huge as Robert Pattinson. I'm not sure I could handle that level of fame.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

Fame is a very strange animal.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

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

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

The fame thing has happened very gradually, so I've been kind of lucky.

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

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a lightbulb.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or fame.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

I don't know if fame will come.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.

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

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

My drum sticks are in the 'Hall of Fame.' I know that.

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

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

I don't really care about having more fame than I have.

Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.