Fame Quotes
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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.
Shirley Ann Manson Angelfish
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The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
Homer
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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.
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
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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
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He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.
Tiger Woods
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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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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.
Dante Alighieri
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong
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People think all fame is the same, but being on BBC Two from time to time does not make you Warren Beatty. I honestly can't impress that upon people enough.
Stephen Merchant
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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.
Brigham Young
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...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
Coco J. Ginger
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Fame is a problem of perspective.
Ethan Canin
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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.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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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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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
Rufus Choate
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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?".
Dan Piraro
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
George Gilfillan
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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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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare
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I'm not sure what fame is for if it isn't to focus on charitable work.quot;
Jamie Lee Curtis
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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.
Jack Owen Cannibal Corpse
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
Josh Hartnett