Fame Quotes - Page 12

Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

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

Fame, they tell you, is air; but without air there is no life for any; without fame there is none for the best.

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.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.

You can take away the money and the fame. I don't look at myself as any of those things.

You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right.

Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.

Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

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

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

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

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Time quickly puts an end to artificial and accidental fame

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.

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

It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.

Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.

Fame is a funny thing, like a secret, both are hard to keep.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

If you are someone, you know, with fame, whatever amount, it's good to be married to someone who's not impressed with that at all.