Fame Quotes
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You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.
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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
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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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The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
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I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
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Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
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But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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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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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.
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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 is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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I’m very excited and honored to be elected to the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame.
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
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To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.
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As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.
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Fame is a modern phenomenon caused by the explosion of media, where there's a zillion digital channels and snappers everywhere. It's so attainable, so people can have their Warhol 15 minutes of fame, and some are so aggressive.
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At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
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I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.
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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
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It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again. But I believe you’re always as good as your potential. I now live in my work and in a few relationships with the few people I can really count on. Fame will go by, and, 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 experienced, but that’s not where I live.
