Fame Quotes - Page 20

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

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

Dead men hear no tales; posthumous fame is an Irish bull.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

Fame is morally neutral.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.

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

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.

I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.

Fame should be left to the film stars.

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.