Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

The nights seem to me too long... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

The one stroke marks the difference between fame and oblivion.

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.

The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.

There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous.

The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

There's only one Elizabeth like me and that's the Queen.

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

There's nothing that can prepare you for fame and for the music business at any point in history.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

The rule in our society is that while those who kill once make wretched a single person are severely punished, those (heads of state, inventors, manufacturers) who are responsible for the death, mutilation or general wretchedness of thousands or millions are rewarded with fame, riches and prizes... If you are going to rob, rob big; if you're going to kill, kill big.

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

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

The strongest poison ever known came from Caesar's laurel crown.

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important.

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

The wise man thinks of fame just enough to avoid being despised.

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

The worst part of fame is not always knowing what I’m doing the next day

They bore within their breasts the grief That fame can never heal- That deep, unutterable woe Which none save exiles feel.