Fame Quotes
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
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The main downside was that it fame happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.
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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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I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
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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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But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.
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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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When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
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A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.
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I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
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I don't care about fame. Problems everywhere.
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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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I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
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Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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Fame and fortune does not mean anything if you don't have a happy home.
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Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters.
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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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Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love.
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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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The fewer men, the greater share of honor.
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Lighter is the wound foreseen.
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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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I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
