What Is Fame Quotes

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.

Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.

Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.

A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

Fame gives you everything you never wanted.

Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

God makes stars. I just produce them.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

I didn't want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.

I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

Some of us just don't want to be famous ... anonymity cannot be bought for any price, once you have lost it.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.

Fame and success are very different things.

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.