We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
~By James Howell ~
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
~By Aeschylus ~
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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.
~By Sandra Oh ~
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
~By Jean de la Bruyere ~
It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
~By Sun Tzu ~
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
~By Bruce Willis ~
My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.
~By Joel McHale ~
Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
~By John Oldham ~
The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.
~By Fay Vincent ~
If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
~By Ralph Kiner ~
My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
~By Oliver Hudson ~
As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
~By Terry Bradshaw ~
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
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.
~By Otis Blackwell ~
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.
~By Alan Shepard ~
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that. He's a very rare man, a very good man, and I've had a good life with him. I'm proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny's fame.
~By June Carter Cash ~
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
~By Emma Watson ~
Who would not rather have the fame of Archimedes than that of his conqueror Marcellus?
~By William Rowan Hamilton ~
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
~By Richard O'Brien ~
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say, 'hi'. You say hi and people whisper' man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
~By A. A. Milne ~
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!
~By Davy Crockett ~
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.
~By Marilyn Monroe ~
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
~By Stephen Rea ~
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
~By Dante Alighieri ~
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
~By Gene Tierney ~
I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.
~By Brenda Lee ~
I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
~By Jim Otto ~
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
~By Truman Capote ~
Fame is the thirst of youth.
~By Lord Byron ~
I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
~By Zac Efron ~
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
~By Kim Novak ~
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
~By Doris Lessing ~
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
~By Billy Connolly ~
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that's not me. It's what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I'm a family man.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
~By Jane Badler ~
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
~By Erica Jong ~
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
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.
~By Hank Stram ~
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
~By Gloria Swanson ~
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
~By Eminem ~
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
~By Alessandro Del Piero ~
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
~By William De Morgan ~
Fame is morally neutral.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
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.
~By Zakk Wylde ~
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
~By Jonathan Frid ~
Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
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.
~By Jane Haddam ~
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
~By James Grainger ~
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
~By Linda Evans ~
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
~By Nellie Melba ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By William Whitehead ~
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
~By Jason Patric ~
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
~By Edie Brickell ~
I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
~By Amelia Earhart ~
George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
~By Alvin Lee ~
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
~By Thom Gunn ~
The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.
~By Dave Winfield ~
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
~By Jack London ~
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
~By Julie Burchill ~
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.
~By Edmund Burke ~
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
~By Major Taylor ~
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.
~By Aidan Quinn ~
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
~By Sallust ~
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
~By David Mallet ~
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
~By Alexander Smith ~
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
I don't think about my fame very much.
~By Calvin Klein ~
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.
~By Ludwig Tieck ~
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
~By Moliere ~
It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
~By Tom Petty ~
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
~By John Fahey ~
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