Fame Quotes - Page 24

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

Of all kinds of ambition, that which pursues poetical fame is the wildest

I hate fame. I hate being recognized, because I don't know how to talk to people.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

I think fame is harder when people have something to hide, but I'm very comfortable, and have nothing to hide.

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. It's like, "I gotta get across the street, man! I gotta be there! I gotta be there!" Then you get across the street and you're like, "Yeah I'm here!" And then, that's it. Fame doesn't make you particularly happy.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

We are more solicitous that men speak of us, than how they speak.

The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.

Fame and fortune should never get in front of your passion. The passion will generate the fame and fortune, if you're good enough.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of.

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it.

Expenditure now attracts fame as conquest once did.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.