Fame Quotes
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Fame is a problem of perspective.
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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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The man who lies asleep will never waken 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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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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They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes.
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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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The most insidious part of fame for April wasn't that other people dehumanized her; it was that she dehumanized herself. She came to see herself not as a person but as a tool.
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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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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.
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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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How dearly, at one time, and how cheaply at another, does Genius purchase immortal fame!
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...but fame didn’t suit you, you compromised, a renegade rebel, you gave me your eyes.
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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.
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Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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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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Knowledge is power as well as fame.
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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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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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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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I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.
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Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.
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One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
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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.
