Fame Quotations | Page 3

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.

I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

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.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

I really want to have a possibility of going into the Hall of Fame one day. I think that's huge with a lot of baseball writers and old school guys. Of course, that's not the main goal - the main goal is winning a World Series. Hall of Fame is so far away. It's just something I've always thought about doing. I want to be as clean as I can.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

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

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

It's very easy for me to keep a low profile because the focus I feel is always on the music. Success and fame are two different things. And so I feel the success is always towards the music, which means that I can have a very normal and private lifestyle.

When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

I don't even think about fame at all.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

I don't really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.

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

I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going back down the mountain.

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

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

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience of being in a band. There are good and bad aspects, and I got to taste some of both, and, well, it's not as much fun as what you see in 'A Hard Day's Night,' let me just say that.

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

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

I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

Personally, I think the timing and manner of the book's release, given that it overshadowed the New York Hall of Fame news conference, sealed Pete's fate. For some reason, the commissioner wants to keep Pete on permanent hold.

I work for a Hall of Fame coach, and what he has done in the past, as far as developing players as players and, more importantly, men, is something that is known from coast to coast. This is a beautiful community, and when you put those things together, good things will happen.

I guess I'm in (the Hall of Fame) then, huh? Otherwise, I really don't have a comment.

Ninety percent of the people on 'Survivor' you never hear from again either so, you know, Andy Warhol was right. They had their 15 minutes of fame - and that was it.

I wouldn't want to get into why he didn't make it in. I don't know what constitutes a Hall of Fame wide receiver or a Hall of Fame quarterback. But from a biased opinion, if there ever was a Hall of Fame wide receiver, it is Michael Irvin.

I wouldn't say there is really any fame. As for the fans, I think it's pretty awesome. What I've learned is people like to be included in things. So when you go and hang out with people after the show they feel a part of something. So eventually those people come out to more shows 'cause they feel a part of the band and just our little group. It's an awesome thing.

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

On fame: It all happened so fast. I'd wake up in the night and go, 'I can't believe it. I've gotta go to the bathroom!

My dad's probably the most influential person in my life. He said, 'You know, it'd be kind of cool to see your name in the Hall of Fame with that team.' We decided let's do it that way.

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

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Rich and those guys laid the foundation. With him getting in the Hall of Fame, it puts our program on the map within the University. It shows that even though we might not have something like a national championship, we still have a program that has a lot of tradition.

Obviously, there's a certain amount of time you have to put in before you're even allowed to be nominated for something like that. Realistically, I think that it's something he should have and could have gotten a lot earlier if the time restrictions hadn't been put in. I think he's always acted like a Hall of Fame coach.

I have been poor and money doesn't make any importance to me. I won't let all the money and glory go to my head. Fame came so quickly and early. It is a pressure to maintain it. Well, I've get used to it. I enjoy the applauding and appreciation of my

I got to see him when I got inducted into the Hall of Fame last July and he sang a song for my wife and myself that we danced to. He was just a big part of my experience with the Hall of Fame last July.

I'd like to thank the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for giving this band a happy ending.

I'd like to be remembered as a nice guy and a fairly decent player. I know I'm not a Hall of Fame golfer. But nice guy and good family man, that would be good enough for me. And a halfway decent golfer.