Fame Quotes
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Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
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It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.
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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
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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.
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Fame gives you everything you never wanted.
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The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.
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Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
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I don't think I ever wanted fame.
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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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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.
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I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
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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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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.
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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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Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
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It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .
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Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
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I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.
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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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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.
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Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
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You don't need the fame to be vital.
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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.
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
