Fame Quotes
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I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing – zero – to do with anything resembling fame.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
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Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.
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Fame to me certainly is only a temporary and a partial happiness ... fame is not really for a daily diet, that's not what fulfills you. It warms you a bit but the warming is temporary. It's like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have to have it every meal and every day.
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We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.
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The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.
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I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame. But when you weigh that against all the things that are really and truly important, things that are deep inside you, then I think I've succeeded.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.
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Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
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Contrary to Warhol's 15 minutes of fame, I think that today in front of insatiable curiosity of the crowd, we would be better off to remain secret as long as possible, work in the denser part of shadows.
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By worrying as little as possible about fame.
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Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!
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Lollapalooza is a place where young upstarts become legends, and legends return to claim their fame.
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If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead.... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
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A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.
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A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
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The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame
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When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?
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You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.
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The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
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The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
