Fame Quotes
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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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Modeling's actually been treating me a lot better at age 24 than when I was 21. Young girls get their hopes up and have fifteen minutes of fame; it's really sad, because there are very few models who last anymore.
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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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The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
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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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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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No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.
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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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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.
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I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
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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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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
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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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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
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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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Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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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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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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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
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Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
