Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. ~By William Davenant ~
He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius. ~By William Gilmore Simms ~
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 ~
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 ~
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. ~By Robert Burns ~
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. ~By Emily Dickinson ~
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke. ~By Mike Tyson ~
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. ~By Erma Bombeck ~
I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus. ~By Giovanni Ribisi ~
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. ~By Oprah Winfrey ~
My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created. ~By Michael Schumacher ~
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 ~
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 ~
Folly loves the martyrdom of fame. ~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. ~By Abbott L. Lowell ~
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you. ~By Gloria Vanderbilt ~
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 ~
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. ~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. ~By Sallust ~
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 ~
Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ~By Wade Boggs ~
Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does. ~By Waylon Jennings ~
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions. ~By Emma Watson ~
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart. ~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism. ~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer. ~By Jane Harman ~
Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. ~By Roger McGuinn ~
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 ~
Fame is a bitch, man. ~By Brad Pitt ~
Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. ~By Conan O'Brien ~
Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame. ~By Robert Klein ~
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time. ~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. ~By Friedrich Schiller ~
It's been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up. ~By Emmitt Smith ~
You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety. ~By Morgan Brittany ~
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death. ~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
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 ~
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. ~By Wade Boggs ~
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else. ~By Nikki Cox ~
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 had brought me so much unhappiness. ~By Brigitte Bardot ~
I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to. ~By Trevor Dunn ~
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 ~
Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it! ~By Ryan Seacrest ~
Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life. ~By Oliver Hudson ~
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things. ~By Mary MacLane ~
My only claim to fame, if I have one, is that I'm an editor. ~By Woody Herman ~
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. ~By Gloria Swanson ~
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. ~By Robert South ~
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself. ~By John Fahey ~
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are. ~By Erica Jong ~
I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame. ~By Steve Brown ~
I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy. ~By Eric Dickerson ~
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral. ~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame. ~By Noel Redding ~
I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it. ~By Calvin Klein ~
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff. ~By William McFee ~
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. ~By Doris Lessing ~
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth. ~By Leon Askin ~
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 ~
Fame doesn't end loneliness. ~By Claire Danes ~
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done. ~By Peter Cushing ~
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. ~By David Cassidy ~
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 live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction. ~By Cate Blanchett ~
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 ~
I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be. ~By George Steinbrenner ~
I feel like fame is wasted on me. ~By Ben Affleck ~
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 ~
Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy. ~By Erika Slezak ~
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else. ~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise. ~By Natasha Henstridge ~
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. ~
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 ~
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. ~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame. ~By Christine Lahti ~
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness. ~By Mary MacLane ~
I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. ~By Eric Idle ~
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash. ~By Jack London ~
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool. ~By Bill Maher ~
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 ~
I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me. ~By John Hughes ~
Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times. ~By Nick Mancuso ~
I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk. ~By Lucas Grabeel ~
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ~By Edmund Burke ~
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little. ~By Lord Byron ~
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 ~
I don't think about my fame very much. ~By Calvin Klein ~
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press. ~By Gene Hackman ~
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 ~
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there. ~By Mike Weir ~
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way. ~By Billy Corgan ~
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people bow down to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour. ~By Shirley Manson ~
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. ~By Truman Capote ~
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. ~By Al Goldstein ~
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 ~
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