Top 100 Quotes About Fame Is
#2. I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.
Troy Baker
#3. Contrary to popular opinion, leaders aren't created out of fame. Fame is just a shadow. When you enter dark times in, it leaves you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#4. My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
Chris Hughes
#5. Fame is a four-letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
Fred Rogers
#6. Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.
Vanna Bonta
#7. Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.
Nick Drake
#8. Fame is also a test of character at times ... Sometimes I pass the test; sometimes I'm a pain in the ass. Sometimes I'm like, Oh, God! I just want to buy some tampons!
Meg Ryan
#9. The final test of fame is to have a crazy person imagine he is you.
Mel Brooks
#10. Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.
Patty Griffin
#11. In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.
Charles H. Townes
#12. Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.
Henry Miller
#13. Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light
Sallust
#14. Fame is a curse ... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.
Sinead O'Connor
#15. The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession. I feel watched 90% of the time, but that is something I drew with the cards that I drew.
Dionne Warwick
#16. When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
Saul Leiter
#17. Fame is one thing, notoriety is another.
Lana Turner
#18. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke - the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.
Corey Taylor
#19. Fame is a modern phenomenon caused by the explosion of media, where there's a zillion digital channels and snappers everywhere. It's so attainable, so people can have their Warhol 15 minutes of fame, and some are so aggressive.
Simon Fuller
#20. The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#21. Fame is like dust in a gusty wind. You never know in which way it is blowing. If you ever face the gust of the wind, don't get carried away.
Olarewaju Oladipo
#22. Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
Hans Rosling
#23. At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
Sharon Stone
#24. I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.
Sophie Okonedo
#25. Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.
Jonathan Sacks
#27. Fame is temporary, make it longterm by putting smiles on people's hearts and helping others by expecting nothing in return. Be famous and unforgettable for your Unconditional Love
Arsi Nami
#28. The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
Fran Lebowitz
#29. Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
Pierce Brosnan
#30. Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#31. Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.
Ato Essandoh
#32. Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core..
Himmilicious
#33. Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.
Katy Perry
#34. Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Edward Young
#35. Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
Hans Rosling
#37. Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.
Dante Alighieri
#39. If you have fame, you never feel that you have fame, if you have the brains of a flea. Because fame is something that's over back of you. It ain't ahead ... Not ahead at all. I mean, if you've done it that's great, but "what are you going to do now?" is the only thing that matters.
Katharine Hepburn
#40. For me, it was never a choice not to play the game because I was never attracted to it in the first place. I have plenty of friends who get stalked by the paparazzi, but it's not anything you'd aspire to. Fame is like Frankenstein's monster - once you've created it, it can get out of control.
Robert B. Weide
#41. No fame is actually worth much now-a-days, - because it is not classic fame, strong in reposeful old-world dignity, - it is blatant noisy notoriety merely.
Marie Corelli
#42. The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.
Tom Waits
#43. Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.
Zac Efron
#44. I'm just a girl, With a dream that got the best of me, In a world that believes fame is everything.
Miley Cyrus
#45. ...fame is something other people hand you, while success is what you define for yourself.
Jennifer Mason-Black
#46. Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special.
John Riggins
#48. Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.
George Lazenby
#49. Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Wade Boggs
#50. Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.
Mary Beard
#51. Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings, only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace Greeley
#52. I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
Jane Haddam
#53. Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
Daniel Radcliffe
#54. Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
OMI
#55. When mom and dad were at the height of their careers, and things were super-crazy, and they couldn't leave their houses, there wasn't social media. It was all about autographs. Now, everyone's the press. I feel fame is perforated: it can be glorious, but it can completely destroy a human, too.
Dakota Johnson
#56. Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt
#58. Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
Big Sean
#59. Posthumous fame, book fame, nerd fame is not like the good kind of fame. It might last for centuries and let antique egg heads torture the young from the grave, but it just doesn't pay the bills.
Laura Penny
#60. This fame is a juggernaut: It slaps you in the face, and you don't know what you're doing. You don't know who has your back, who is your support system.
Estelle
#61. Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.
Steve Kaufman
#62. I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.
Steve McNair
#63. The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I'm doing the next day
David Archuleta
#64. Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Henry David Thoreau
#65. Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri
#66. My only real claim to fame is that I was southern England show-jumping champion in 1966. The day after my father died, 'Horse & Hound' magazine tipped me as a future Olympic champion, and I took it seriously. You can only really enjoy something if you take it seriously.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#67. The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.
Banksy
#68. God doesn't measure big the way people measure big. Jesus had just twelve followers." He blinked a few times. "Fame is a demanding mistress.
Karen Kingsbury
#69. That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down.
Dave Holmes
#70. You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.
Jamie Cullum
#71. LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.
David Foster Wallace
#72. The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.
Samuel Johnson
#73. The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
Hank Stram
#74. 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.
Katy Perry
#75. Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.
Chevy Chase
#76. The thirst after fame is greater than that after virtue; for who embraces virtue if you take away its rewards?
Juvenal
#77. So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
Richard O'Brien
#78. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates
#79. It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture.
Johnny Cash
#80. To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.
Joe Torre
#81. Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.
Justin Theroux
#82. Fame is like a tree. It helps you get pussy.
Jon Lajoie
#85. Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
Cal Ripken Jr.
#86. Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
Billy Connolly
#88. People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfillment out of doing the thing you love.
Claire Danes
#89. I think fame is something that you've achieved in your inner self that becomes known to others outside you. There are really very few famous people in history.
James Purdy
#90. Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.
Reba McEntire
#91. Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.
Jerome Bettis
#92. The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Tacitus
#93. The Golf Hall of Fame is full of players with unusual looking swings. Some of the prettiest swings you've ever seen in your life are made on the far end of the public driving range by guys who couldn't break an egg with a baseball bat.
Peter Jacobsen
#95. Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
Alanis Morissette
#96. Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.
Rob Lowe
#97. Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#99. Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
Marilyn Monroe
#100. The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards?
[Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam
Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam
Praemia se tollas.]
Juvenal
