Fame Quotes

I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on stage. But I can't say I would turn my back on fortune. I'm someone who enjoys the benefits of money.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

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

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

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

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.

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.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

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

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.