What Is Fame Quotes

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first and late, A work too late for fame.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.

In arms and science tis the same Our rival's hurts create our fame.

The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance!

The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

The main claim to fame, I think, of Bernie Sanders - who I've never met; I'm sure he's a pleasant guy - [is that] he's certainly not stupid.

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that.

Trump claims he'd be the "best jobs president that God ever created." But isn't his claim to fame firing people?

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

I spent so long studying really hard to become a fine actor, but threw it all away because I got the adulation and the fame so easily

Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter's fame.

If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.

If it's just fame for the sake of being famous, no one even cares about you - and you don't even care about yourself because you're like, "This is so ridiculous."

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

I had come to a stage in life where I didn't need to earn an income, I didn't need to earn a reputation, I didn't need fame, I didn't need any of the things you might want in your early career.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

We did a really cool video for this song [Milquetoast] with Alex Winter from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure fame. He's an extremely intelligent guy. Butch Vig also did a mix for The Crow movie.

My fame is largely due to young people, theyre the first ones to discover me.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.

Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?