Fame Quotes
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
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I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
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It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.
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I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people i'd know for years started treating me differently.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
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Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
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I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.
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When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
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I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that's based on voters' beliefs and assumptions.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
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I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
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I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
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Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
