Fame Quotes

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able.

With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

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.

My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor.

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.

A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

Honor's thought Reigns solely in the breast of every man.

I don't know what's wrong with me, My brain doesn't work anymore. I haven't any memory. I can't write. All I can do is sign my name. I tried to write the other day-it looked like I was writing in Braille.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Since the day I finished shooting there's been at least one person come up to me every single day and then after the trailer came out, at least four. It's absolutely bizarre to me. This was before there was any systematic promotion of the movie. It's just completely nuts.

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'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.

I'm the world's most famous photographer, most sought after photographer, most awarded photographer.

He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying.

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Being on stage is a seductive lifestyle. My advice to aspiring actors is think twice. People sometimes go into acting for the wrong reasons - as a shortcut to fame and fortune. If these goals are not attained, they feel a bitter disappointment.

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.