Fame Quotes

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.