Fame Quotes
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Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
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Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
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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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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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...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
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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 is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
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Earth sounds my wisdom, and high heaven my fame.
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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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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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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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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
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Fame should be left to the film stars.
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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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In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame.
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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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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 vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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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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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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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.
