Top 100 Quotes About Fame
#2. Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#3. The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
#5. I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?
Lady Gaga
#6. I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
Pamela Sue Martin
#7. I don't live for glamor and I don't care for fame, I'm in it for the love of the game
Jay Sean
#8. I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, like with the Genies and stuff like that, it was so much fun. It's so much fun and it's nice when it comes, but that's not what it's all about.
Sandra Oh
#9. My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
Emma Watson
#10. After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
A.R. Rahman
#11. That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
Lupe Fiasco
#12. The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.
Vladimir Nabokov
#13. The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend.
Alfredo Di Stefano
#14. I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.
Jim Carrey
#15. In books I meet the dead as if they were alive,
in books I see what is yet to come ...
All things decay and pass with time ...
all fame would fall victim to oblivion
if God had not given mortal men the book to aid them.
Richard De Bury Translated By E.C.Thomas
#16. When we talk about having a life of significance and meaning, it's not about fame or money or resources. It's about people and lives and hearts. That's my biggest passion in life.
Tim Tebow
#17. I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#18. Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#19. There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.
Jerry Seinfeld
#20. I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.
Abbie Cornish
#21. Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.
Tacitus
#22. Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Tacitus
#23. It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Paul Stanley
#24. The last thing I want is to die and then be put into the Hall of Fame. It's not because I won't be there to enjoy it, exactly. It's because I want to enjoy it with family and friends and fans. I want to see them enjoy it.
Ron Santo
#25. There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.
John C. Reilly
#27. I've always warned my clients about fame being very dangerous, and unfortunately, they need to be famous to make a living, but not to be flippant with it, that it could kill them, and to always keep their eye on it. There was no reason for me to do it. I don't make my money off fame, not my fame.
Shep Gordon
#28. I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
William T. Sherman
#29. If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
Paul Mooney
#30. Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.
Jesse Stone
#31. When you reach a certain level of fame or success or income all these magical things are going to happen to you. All of the sudden you're very popular. You're very pretty. Everyone loves you and that's going to fix all your problems.
Jessica Origliasso
#32. It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#33. Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.
Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.
Rumi
#34. I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
B. D. Wong
#36. Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.
Cintra Wilson
#37. We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.
Jane Porter
#38. But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.
Robin Yount
#39. You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
Nikki Cox
#40. Bright fame, bright glory will crown Lavinia. But she brings her people war.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#43. Whenever I'm feeling a bit down, I always visit the local children's hospital. Knowing that those cancer-kids wont be able to live long enough to surpass me in fame just warms my heart, you know?
Zach Braff
#44. No matter how much fame you get, no matter how much money you make, no matter how much admiration you get, nothing feels as monumental as when someone tells you that something you did changed their outlook on life.
Zack W. Van
#45. 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?
Kelvin Mercer
#46. If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
Dogen
#47. We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.
Nhat Hanh
#48. I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.
Mary Tyler Moore
#49. Fame looks like a really hairy affair. But if it's part of the job, I'll figure out a way to deal with it.
Tom Everett Scott
#50. People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
Nas
#51. Fame by association is the emptiest kind.
Nina LaCour
#52. Mickey Mouse ... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
Annette Funicello
#53. Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesn't? But famous-famous? I just don't care about it. And if you genuinely don't give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.
Brady Corbet
#54. We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: "It is appointed unto men once to die" [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].
Billy Graham
#55. I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.
Jerrod Carmichael
#56. Of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
Richard Rhodes
#57. Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
Zoe Kravitz
#60. I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
Boris Kodjoe
#61. I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
Patrick Ewing
#62. Then, since all great poets are strange in their speech and actions, he must have achieved great fame, for his actions and conversations were the strangest of any man I ever knew.
Robert E. Howard
#63. We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.
Gale Sayers
#64. People ask me, 'Did the fame come too fast? Do you ever wish for your old life?' I always tell them that there's nothing on earth better than being famous.
Zach Braff
#65. Fame will go by and, 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.
Marilyn Monroe
#66. Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.
Joseph Priestley
#67. Hillary Clinton was actually inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame yesterday. Hillary said she's very proud of her Irish heritage or her Italian heritage or her Asian heritage. Whatever it takes to seal the deal with you guys. I've got to get into that Oval Office.
Jimmy Fallon
#68. Fame is an epiphany of bubbles that are transient and pugnacious.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.
Mason Cooley
#70. Men seek to be great; they would have offices, wealth, power, and fame. They think that to be great is to possess one side of nature,
the sweet, without the other side,
the bitter.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#71. Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
Julie Burchill
#72. One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
Nellie Melba
#73. There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
Alan Jackson
#74. Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.
Pablo Picasso
#75. None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.
Samuel Johnson
#76. See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.
Henry David Thoreau
#77. With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
Albert Einstein
#78. I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.
Adam Oates
#79. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
Micky Dolenz
#80. Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys,
There is but one a bad one;
The tenth is he, the parson's fee,
And indeed he is a sad one.
No love of fame, no sense of shame,
And a bad heart, let me tell ye:
Without, all brass; within, all ass,
And the puppy's name is Felly.
Horace Walpole
#81. 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!
David Crockett
#82. Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love, ah! Love I have it not.
Henry Cuyler Bunner
#83. I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.
Otis Blackwell
#84. The Nazz survived for 18 months - that was my first taste of fame on some level and of the overall experience of being in a band. There are good and bad aspects, and I got to taste some of both, and, well, it's not as much fun as what you see in 'A Hard Day's Night,' let me just say that.
Todd Rundgren
#85. 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."
Mos Def
#86. As the sun eclipses the stars by its brilliancy, so the man of knowledge will eclipse the fame of others in assemblies of the people if he proposes algebraic problems, and still more if he solves them.
Brahmagupta
#87. Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Meagan Good
#88. Yes I am weird
But no one normal made it into the hall of fame.
Me
#89. You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself
Standing in the hall of fame
The Script
#90. I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can to try to turn people around, to try to steer 'em in the right direction.' That's the whole trip in life, ya know.
Wolfman Jack
#91. I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.
Benjamin Zander
#92. There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.
Homer
#93. That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
Jeff Bridges
#94. Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
George Eliot
#95. You need only one thing in the world. It is not money. It is not fame. It is not even food. All you need in the world is hope. As long as you have that, you have everything. This is your birthright that you should never lose. If you keep hope, all your other necessities will come soon enough.
Ilchi Lee
#96. Everything of the body is a river. Everything of the soul is dream and vapour. Life is war and the abode of a stranger. The only fame after death is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius
#97. There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#98. He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Ludwig Tieck
#99. She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be keeping. I had not bothered to read her writings; her evisceration of other victims was thus unknown to me.
Henry Kissinger
#100. Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest
Oliver Goldsmith
