Fame Quotes

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

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

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.'

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.

I don't even think about fame at all.

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

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

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

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

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

If you look at some of the people in the Hall of Fame, my numbers are compatible.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.