Fame Quotes
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No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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.
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O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame.
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I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
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In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.
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I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.
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You cannot fight against it. There's a price you have to pay for fame, and people who don't want to pay that price can get in trouble. I accepted the idea of celebrity because of a French expression: 'You cannot have the butter and the money for the butter.'
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When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.
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I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.
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No record of her high descent There needs, nor memory of her name; Enough that Raphael’s colors blent To give her features deathless fame.
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Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
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I heard a fella say once he'd rather have a rose bud when he was alive than to have a whole rose garden thrown his way after he is gone. It looks like they've (the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1935) thrown the roses my way while I'm still here.
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Sam Jackson is a director's dream. Some actors hope to find their character during shooting. He knows his character before shooting. Sam's old-school. I just got out of his way. I never did more than two takes with Sam.-william friedkin
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Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.
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Love is the most important ingredient to any meaningful relationship. It is fundamental to true significance. Your quality of life is directly tied to the amount of love flowing in you and through you to others. Though it's often overlooked, love is infinitely more valuable than riches, fame, and honor. They will pass away, but love remains. You can be fulfilled without these, but not without love.
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Acting was a way out at first. A way out of not knowing what to do, a way of focusing ambitions. And the ambition wasn't for fame. The ambition was to do an interesting job.
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Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.
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A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.
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What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
