Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

I have this bodyguard so if I get tired of signing Autographs I ask him to step in. It's hard because people get angry at you, but I've got a life to live too.

I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like to talk about myself to death, and I don't like to share too much, and I don't really have dreams of extreme fame or even extreme respect.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.

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

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!

I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

I'm not going to be somebody who wants to hold on to my fame for the rest of my life.

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

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

I'm not interested in corporate magic or 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.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

I'm still very careless about my public persona. Not careless so to speak but I'm not one for fame. I think fame is the worst part about it.

I'm still working! I think of all the other comics that didn't get the light shined on them, just because it's just how fame works, and it's unfortunate. But there are so many great comics out there who are still working, and I still see them.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame

I never pursued being 'famous.'

In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at.

In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.

In the quest for fortune and fame...don't forget about the simple things.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.