What Is Fame Quotes

I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it's in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men - they all want it.

As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything.

I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.

Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

Y'all really think Ms. Shakur, or Ms. Wallace, Or Ms. Mizell from out in Hollis Wouldn't exchange the love and fame Attached to their loved ones' names Just to have 'em still alive in their arms?

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

The goal for me in business is to work on things I want to work on, and be as successful as I can, without achieving any sort of attention or fame. That would be the best. That would be ideal.

The people that go on 'American Idol' do want some recognition and fame.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

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.

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

I don't even think about fame at all.

I don't want fame. I want to grow as an actor and a person while having my family and my life.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Fame is bought by happiness.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again.

Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.