Fame Quotes - Page 14

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

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.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

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

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.

What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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

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

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

Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.

My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.

Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.