Fame Quotes
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...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
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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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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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As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
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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.
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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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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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I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
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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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O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.
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Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden.
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This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system.
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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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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
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I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.
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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 means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
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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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For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
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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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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.
