Fame Quotes

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

I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

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.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

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

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.

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

To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

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.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.