Fame Quotes
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You, methinks you think you love me well; For me, I love you somewhat; rest: and Love Should have some rest and pleasure in himself, Not ever be too curious for a boon, Too prurient for a proof against the grain Of him ye say ye love: but Fame with men, Being but ampler means to serve mankind, Should have small rest or pleasure in herself, But work as vassal to the larger love, That dwarfs the petty love of one to one.
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People think being famous is fun. It's not. Even a little bit of fame. It's bizarre. It's weird.
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People will hate you for no reason, or for bad reasons, or even for good reasons. People are torn apart by fame, and this is far beyond what most of them deal with. You're talking about yourself like you're a tool, but you're a person too. And an evolving one. This will affect your life forever.
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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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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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
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Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.
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The most distinctive characteristic which differentiates mathematics from the various branches of empirical science, and which accounts for its fame as the queen of the sciences, is no doubt the peculiar certainty and necessity of its results.
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If my sense of security lies in my reputation or in the things I have, my life will be in a constant state of threat and jeopardy-a fear that these possessions may be lost, stolen, or devalued. If I'm in the presence of someone of greater net worth, fame, or status, I feel inferior. If I'm in the presence of someone of lesser net worth, fame or status, I feel superior. My sense of self-worth constantly fluctu-ates. I don't have any sense of constancy, anchorage, or persistent selfhood. I am constantly trying to protect and insure my assets, properties, securities, position, or reputation.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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Work was never about wanting fame or money. I never thought about that. I loved getting the job, going to rehearsal, playing someone else, hanging around with a bunch of actors. I needed that, the way you need water.
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Fame is a problem of perspective.
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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
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Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
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Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
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It is a lie to write in such way as to be rewarded by fame offered you by some snobbish quasi-literary groups in the intellectual gazettes.
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Fame has killed more very talented guys than drugs. Jimi Hendrix didn't die of an overdose, he died of fame.
