Fame Quotes
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Marilyn Monroe
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford Cox
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
Thomas Carlyle
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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
Petrarch
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I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
Stephen Rea
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For anyone who has ever stood before a bathroom mirror and secretly thanked The Academy, a hilarious guide to becoming 'It' in an age where the line between fame and infamy is as fine as a Manolo Blahnik stiletto heel.
Bonnie Fuller
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Fame is a problem of perspective.
Ethan Canin
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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.
George Michael
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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.
Steve Lukather Toto
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I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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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.
Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
Cato the Elder
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
Tiger Woods
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Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.
Erika Slezak
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
Steve Martin
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
Alexander McQueen
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The only good thing about fame that I've gotten is I've gotten out of a couple of speeding tickets. I've gotten into a restaurant when I didn't have a suit and tie on. That's really about it.
Bill Murray
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I may not go down in the hall of fame, but I’m gonna enjoy my life. I’m gonna enjoy it for what it is.
Jack Owen Cannibal Corpse
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It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed, "would be nearer the truth.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?".
Dan Piraro