Fame Quotes
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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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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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Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
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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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A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.
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You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
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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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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
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In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's 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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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.
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
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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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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.
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I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.
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Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
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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.
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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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Fame is a problem of perspective.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
