Fame Quotes
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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin
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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.
Ezra Edelman
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Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
Horace Greeley
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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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Our male-dominated culture tends to define success in terms of wealth, fame, power, the reaction of others. Women are fed a version that includes personal fulfilment through marriage and motherhood in addition to professional acclaim and of course we must look sexy but not too sexy and then graciously disappear when we hit middle age.
Catherine Mayer
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare
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Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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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.
Christopher Bollen
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Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'
Michael Ian Black
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I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
Troy Garity
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
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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.
Estelle
