100+ Fame Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Cintra Wilson (2016). “A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations”, p.104, Wilberforce Codex

topic: Believe, Miserable, Fame, Deserve You

Acquaintance lessens fame.

- Claudius

topic: Fame, Acquaintance

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

- Clay Aiken

topic: Influence, Fame

Fame is simply an imbalance between inbound and outbound attention.

- Clay Shirky

topic: Attention, Imbalance, Fame

When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

- Clemence Poesy

topic: Normal, Fame, Normal Life

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

- Clive James

topic: Good Life, Life Is, Fame

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

- Confucius

topic: Fame, Worthy, Concerned

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

- Craig Charles

topic: Roots, Wealth, Fame, I Haven't Changed

Getting buried alive will always be my claim to fame.

- Crystal Chappell

topic: Alive, Fame, Claims

I'm not interested in fame at all.

- Crystal Reed

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fame, Not Interested

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

- Curt Flood

topic: Jobs, Coaching, Fame

Jerome Bettis should be in the Hall of Fame

- Curtis Martin

topic: Fame, Should, Halls, Hall Of Fame

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

- Cyndi Lauper

topic: Giving, Fame

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

- Cyndi Lauper

source: "New Again: Cyndi Lauper". Interview with Gael Love and Glenn O’Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

topic: Able, Fame

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

- D. H. Lawrence

topic: Women, Fame, Donkey

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

- Danica McKellar

topic: Dumb, Looks, Fame

Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.

- Danica Patrick

topic: Annoying, Fame, Perks

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

topic: Names, Dignity, Fame

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

- Daniel Radcliffe

topic: Self, Doe, Fame

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

- Danielle Steel

topic: Literature, Fame, Needed

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

- Dave Chappelle

topic: Fame, Horrible, Being Famous

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

- Dave Chappelle

topic: Country, Fame

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

- Dave Chappelle

topic: Fame, Phenomenal

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

- Dave Kellett

topic: Fame

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

- Dave Madden

topic: Cells, Prison, Fame

The sooner I get into the Hall of Fame the better.

- Dave Winfield

topic: Fame, Halls

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

- David Beckham

topic: Fame, Cruise

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

- David Bowie

topic: Thinking, Fame, Restaurants

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

- David Cassidy

topic: Stuff, Fame, Good Work

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

- David Giuntoli

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sake, Fame

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

- David Markson

source: David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

topic: Dream, Lonely, Fame

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

- Debra Winger

topic: Thinking, Actresses, Fame, Being Famous

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

- Dee Dee Myers

topic: World, Fame, Barack

I want a woman who can go to the saloon with me, not hypocritical, fame seeking

- Denrele Edun

topic: Want, Fame, Hypocritical, I Want A Woman, Saloons

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

- Diablo Cody

topic: Ugly, Fame, Stressful

By worrying as little as possible about fame.

- Diogenes

topic: Worry, Littles, Fame

On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame

- Diogenes

topic: Worry, Littles, Fame

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

- Dolph Lundgren

source: Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Fame, Bodyguard

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

- Don Johnson

topic: Infamous, Fame

If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?

- Doris Day

topic: People, Fame

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

- Doris Lessing

topic: Worry, Fame, Posthumous

I would like to be famous but unknown.

- Edgar Degas

topic: Fame

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

- Edward Norton

topic: Fame

Of this be wary. Honor and fame are often regarded as interchangeable. Both involve an appraisal of the individual. . . but I suggest this difference. Fame is morally neutral.

- Edward R. Murrow

topic: Honor, Fame, Individual, Appraisal

Fame is morally neutral.

- Edward R. Murrow

topic: Fame

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

- Elizabeth Kostova

topic: Fame

Fame attracts lunatics.

- Elton John

topic: Fame, Lunatic

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.

- Elvis Presley

topic: People, Looks, Fame

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense?

- Elvis Presley

topic: Envy, Fame, Admire

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

- Elvis Presley

topic: Music, Way, Fame

Celebrity sells dearly what we think she gives.

- Emile Souvestre

topic: Thinking, Giving, Fame

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

- Eminem

topic: Moving, Slow Motion, Fame

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

- Eminem

topic: Bricks, Fame

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

- Eminem

topic: Believe, May, Fame

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.

- Emma Watson

topic: Friends, Nice, Fame

Fame and success are very different things.

- Enya

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Different, Fame

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

- Erika Slezak

topic: Healthy, Not Happy, Fame

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

- Euripides

topic: Toil, Reputation, Fame

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Thinking, Fame, Modeling

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

- Evelyn Ashford

topic: Want, Fame, Fortune

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

- Famke Janssen

topic: Levels, Fame, Achieve

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

- Fernando Pessoa

topic: Men, Trouble, Fame

Fame is cool but I believe in success.

- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

topic: Believe, Mma, Fame, Promoters

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

topic: Writing, Tables, Fame

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

- Frances Wright

topic: Men, Noise, Fame

Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.

- Francesca Annis

topic: Fame, Shoulders, Sat

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

- Francesca Annis

topic: Fame, Good Work, Exposure

I never pursued being 'famous.'

- Francesca Annis

topic: Fame

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

- Francis Bacon

topic: Fire, May, Fame, Kindles

Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

- Frank Gifford

topic: Sports, Player, Fame, Rosie

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

- Frank Moore Colby

topic: Reputation, Fame

I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is.

- Frankie Manning

topic: Glory, Fame, Not Interested, Choreographers

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

- Franz Grillparzer

topic: Fame, Empty, Divine

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Writing, Want, Fame

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

- Gabriela Sabatini

topic: Fame, Heard, Halls, Hall Of Fame, Hoping For Something

My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.

- Geddy Lee

topic: Simple, Emotion, Fame, Hall Of Fame, Absolutely Nothing

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

- Geert Groote

topic: Men, Perfection, Fame

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

- Gene Mauch

topic: Jelly, Fame, Should

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Men, Fame, Admirer

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

- George Edward Woodberry

topic: Eulogy, Fame

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

- George Eliot

topic: Men, Reputation, Fame

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

topic: Violin, Kind, Fame

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

- George Harrison

topic: Successful, Being Successful, Fame

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

- George Santayana

topic: Vanity, Reputation, Fame

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

- George Steinbrenner

topic: Thinking, Want, Fame

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

- George Washington Carver

topic: Successful, Fields, Fame

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

- Gertrude Atherton

topic: Want, Fame, Columns

It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.

- Gertrude Berg

topic: Fame, Chemicals

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.

- Giacomo Meyerbeer

source: Giacomo Meyerbeer (1989). “Giacomo Meyerbeer: A Life in Letters”

topic: Creativity, Artistic, Fame, Artistic Creativity

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Fashion, Literature, Fame

Fame changes a lot of things, but it can't change a light bulb.

- Gilda Radner

topic: Light, Fame, Bulbs, Light Bulb

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.

- Gloria Swanson

topic: Fun, Fame, Ran

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

- Gloria Vanderbilt

topic: Different, Taste, Fame, Different Tastes

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

- Gustave Flaubert

topic: Fame, Interest

I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.

- Guy Pearce

topic: Stuff, Fame

A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.

- Harold Rosenberg

topic: Prestige, Fame, Painter

I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

- Harriet Martineau

topic: Might, Helping, Fame

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

- Helen Slater

topic: Fame, Stills

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

- Helen Vendler

topic: Fame, Poet

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

- Henry Austin Dobson

source: 'Fame is a Food' (1906)

topic: Men, Meat, Fame

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.

- Henry Winkler

topic: People, Fame

You don't need the fame to be vital.

- Herbie Hancock

topic: Meaning Of Life, Needs, Fame

Fame was like a drug. But what was even more like a drug were the drugs.

- Homer

topic: Drug, Fame

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

- Homer

topic: Fame, Renown, Deathless

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

- Homer

topic: Fame, Vulgar

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

- Homer

topic: Giving, Pay, Fame

But sure the eye of time beholds no name, So blest as thine in all the rolls of fame.

- Homer

topic: Eye, Names, Fame

Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.

- Homer

topic: Return, Rich, Fame

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Fame, Wells

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

- Ingrid Bengis

topic: Real, Fame, Traps

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

- Isabel Allende

topic: Legends, Fame, Storyteller

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

- Israel Zangwill

topic: Men, Bulls, Fame, Posthumous

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

- J. Cole

topic: Resistance, Fame, Conscious

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