Best 1177 quotes in «fame quotes» category

2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

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.

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

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

A good reputation is better than fame.

All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

All is ephemeral - fame and the famous as well.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience!

All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.

Alot of peo­ple think our lives are all about tak­ing pic­tures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're tak­ing pic­tures of you all the time.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family. You still gotta stand up and be that guy even when you ain't having great things. Because you've gotta be the spokesperson for your people.

A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.

And yet, after all, what is posthumous fame? Altogether vanity.

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***.

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Around the mighty master came The marvels which his pencil wrought, Those miracles of power whose fame Is wide as human thought.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.

A series of vibrations. What does it matter, the source of the catalyst?

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.

Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.

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

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

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

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.