Fame Quotes
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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.
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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?".
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A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
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I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
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I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
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Fame is the thirst of youth.
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...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
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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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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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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.
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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.
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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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Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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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 a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.
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The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
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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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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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Fame compensates for a column of wants.
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If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
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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.
