Fame Quotes
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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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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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Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.
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When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.
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People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but I cannot go against it. But it's true that our industry is just full of people who actually really look good. It's the criteria of our generation.
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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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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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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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I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.
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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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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 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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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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The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
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That's what fame is: solitude.
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Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
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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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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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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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Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
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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.
