Fame Quotes
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The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
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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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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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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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Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
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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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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
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I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
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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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That's what fame is: solitude.
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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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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
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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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The child's grief throbs against the round of its little heart as heavily as the man's sorrow, and the one finds as much delight in his kite or drum as the other in striking the springs of enterprise or soaring on the wings of fame.
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Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
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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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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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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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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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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
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I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
