Fame Quotes - Page 17

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

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

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

If you ain't nothing when you get money and fame, you're just going to be more nothing. If you don't stand for nothing, when you get money and fame, you ain't suddenly fin to stand for nothing! You're just fin to be richer and more famous - standing for nothing!

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

Fame is the sum of the misunderstanding that gathers about a new name.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.

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

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.

Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

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

I love being a star more than life itself.