What Is Fame Quotes

Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown; Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

Most people get into bands for three very simple rock and roll reasons: to get laid, to get fame, and to get rich.

The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame,-a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

If you're not careful, you can get a grossly over-inflated opinion about your popularity.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

My dad always said to me that with fame comes great responsibility, which has always stuck with me, even though I think he stole that line from Spiderman.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping ground.

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.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I live in Los Angeles and I had been drinking one night, so I was on the walk of fame and I saw Tony Danza's star and I started urinating on it. Just yelling out, 'Who's the boss now?'

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love.

What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Fame is nothing but an empty name.

What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.