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 ~
With fame, you can't trust everybody. You can't depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you've got and what you can bring to their life. It's not a relationship-it's a leech.
~By Chris Brown ~
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 ~
Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
~By Wilhelm Steinitz ~
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
~By Bodhidharma ~
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
~By Alexander Smith ~
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 ~
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
~By Tacitus ~
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 ~
I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
~By Bear Bryant ~
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
~By George Villiers ~
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 ~
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
~By Kim Novak ~
I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
~By David Duchovny ~
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 ~
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
~By Kate Bosworth ~
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 ~
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
~By Barack Obama ~
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
~By Mike Weir ~
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
~By John Wooden ~
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 ~
What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
~By James Grainger ~
Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.
~By Crystal Chappell ~
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
~By Bernie Worrell ~
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 ~
Who has the fame to be an early riser may sleep till noon.
~By James Howell ~
I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.
~By Debby Boone ~
I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
~By Oliver Herford ~
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
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. ~
Fame is morally neutral.
~By Edward R. Murrow ~
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 ~
I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.
~By Richie Ashburn ~
I feel like fame is wasted on me.
~By Ben Affleck ~
If you're a musician or actor, you know that if you're successful, some level of fame goes along with that. You're prepared. But how often does that happen to a programmer?
~By Shawn Fanning ~
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
~By Erica Jong ~
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 ~
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 ~
I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.
~By Steve Brown ~
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
~By Leonard Cohen ~
I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.
~By Noel Redding ~
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
~By Charles Churchill ~
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
~By Buck Owens ~
Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
~By John Corbett ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
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 ~
I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
~By Mandy Moore ~
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
~By Jerry Rubin ~
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
~By William Davenant ~
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
~By Marquis De Vauvenargues ~
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 ~
Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
Fame is a bitch, man.
~By Brad Pitt ~
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 think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
~By Sophia Bush ~
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
~By John Webster ~
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
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 ~
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
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 ~
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 ~
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
~By Doris Lessing ~
At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation.
~By John George Nicolay ~
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
~By Sheryl Crow ~
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 ~
Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
~By John Oldham ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
~By Stephen Rea ~
I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
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 ~
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
~By Marlo Thomas ~
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
~By Robert Burns ~
I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
~By Dan Fouts ~
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
~By Giacomo Meyerbeer ~
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 ~
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 ~
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
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