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I've been in the public eye for about 15 or 16 years and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

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

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

I've wanted to be a professional actor for years and if you get any sort of success in that field then fame sort of comes along with it. But I don't know if I'm sort of media fodder like other people are. I'm essentially a family man.

I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

I want a sandwich named after me.

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

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot.

I wanted to. I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled. Thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.

I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.

I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

I was worried that I didn't have as many Facebook 'likes' as another musician. You can almost feel like a failure if you aren't building your fame in that way.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

I went to a regular school, not one of those fame academy things.

I will either be famous or infamous.

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.

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.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

Jerome Bettis should be in the Hall of Fame

Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Judgments about who belongs in the Hall of Fame are extremely subjective.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

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

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

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.

Love is better than Fame.

Love and grief and motherhood, Fame and mirth and scorn - these are all shall befall, Any woman born.

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.

Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.