Fame Quotes

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

The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

Fame and success are very different things.

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

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.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

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

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.

Fame is a constant effort.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Some people can handle fame, some can't.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.