Fame Quotations | Page 2

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

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

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk

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

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

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

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

I'm a creative person, and I've got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made 'Rack City' and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.

My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

The thing that is cool about my come up is that I dealt with fame and having money gradually. It didn't happen overnight. It was something that took a while to happen. It was something that humbled me and made me very appreciative of my blessings more than I would have been if it had happened faster and easier.

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.

Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency.

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.

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

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

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

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

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

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

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 is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.

I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.

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.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that's changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

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

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I think that being thrown into instant fame must be, at times, difficult.

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

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

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

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

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

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.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.