Fame Quotes

• I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.

  

  Alex Parks
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Limelight

• A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.

  

  Dan Graham
  • Art
  • Values
  • Economic

• What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Share

• The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

  

  Walt Frazier
  • Names
  • Seasons
  • Postseason

• When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?

  

  Charlamagne Tha God
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Care

• Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Wisdom
  • Wealth
  • Train

• If you covet fame, if you covet all the superficial accolades, you're gonna be miserable 'cause you're never going to get enough praise. If you covet contributing something substantive to movies, music, literature, then you won't be unhappy.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Literature
  • Movies
  • Praise

• Making a living is not a career. It might be for an accountant, but it's not for someone who says "I want one thing." The guy who feels that his career hasn't happened yet. The guy who has that kind of hunger, who wants money and fame.

  

  Bill Conti
  • Money
  • Career
  • Fame

• The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Fame

• So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Life
  • Service
  • Fame

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

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Fear
  • Genius
  • Shows

• A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Kind
  • Celebrity
  • Soup

• There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Important
  • Art
  • Culture

• Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Water
  • Glory
  • Circles

• O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Thought
  • Delight
  • Unworthy

• On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame.

  

  Diogenes
  • Fame
  • Little
  • Responded

• John Mayall doesn't get enough credit. He's not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which is a tragedy.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Enough
  • Get
  • Credit

• Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

  

  Confucius
  • Fame
  • Trade
  • Desires

• You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Feel
  • Fame

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

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Walks
  • Hoot
  • Hallelujah

• I find 'Fatal Attraction' really romantic. I really like the seduction. Almost every time I see it, I'm surprised when it goes dark. I know that's the claim to fame, but I key into how genuinely romantic it is.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Dark
  • Knows
  • Keys

• If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Experience
  • Fame
  • Fickle

• The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Time
  • Actor
  • Fame

• Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

  

  Tom Hardy
  • Believe
  • Fun
  • Mean

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