Fame Quotes

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

The money, the fame, if that comes, that's fantastic. But at the end of the day, my aim is to go to sleep at night content and have a purpose, and to know that I'm not swapping my life for money and some mind-numbing boring job, making easy money and protecting my brain.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to develop.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.

Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.