What Is Fame Quotes

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame.

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

A man who always talks for fame never can be pleasing. The man who talks to unburthen his mind is the man to delight you.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

When we were young people, all we ever wanted was to be good working actors. We didn't think of fame or money because, honestly, money was never part of the dream.

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.

If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

I do not think a similar goal, to attain fame, drove me when I was a child and young woman.

Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.

I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

I don't know why it (stardom) happened-but it's kinda nice. Maybe it's because I'm someone off the streets. Maybe people relate to me.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

Fame is really great in a lot of ways, you know? People are a lot nicer to you. Like, the more famous you are, the more free presents you get. And invitations to really amazing things.

When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

When I started on MySpace, people wanted to support me, but once I rose to fame with the MTV show, they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason, that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them.

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor, whatever people consider me is fine with me.

You get a lot of fame, but haven't created anything musically.

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame.

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.

I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

With the mega-fame came the mega-downfall - you know, with the press and everything - and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.