Fame Quotes
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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.
Hank Green
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Fame compensates for a column of wants.
Gertrude Atherton
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
Josh Hartnett
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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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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
Errol Morris
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I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.
Johnathon Schaech
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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.
Terry Bradshaw
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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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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
Tacitus
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
Dante Alighieri
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When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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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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The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.
Homer
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Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
Cat Deeley
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Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
Ryan Adams
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I don't think I ever wanted fame.
Susan Sullivan
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I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.
Norm MacDonald
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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
Robert Wyatt
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Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.
David Bowie
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Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.
Romain Duris
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Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, fame. It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used.
Harry Dean Stanton
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You don't need the fame to be vital.
Herbie Hancock
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
Ava Gardner
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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.
Charles A. Reich