Fame Quotes - Page 25

someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

When you finally end something like Superman and then find yourself world-famous, it's pretty weird, lemme tell ya. Fame is weird, is what it really is. It's the weirdest thing in the world.

Luther Vandross was a musician who sang. So after a while he was also the number one background singer in New York, so he would sing for Bette Midler, he sang on "Fame," he sang for David Bowie, he sang for - whoever needed backgrounds, he would arrange the parts and hook your record up. He also sang on commercials. McDonald's, Budweiser.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I've wanted to be a professional actor for years and if you get any sort of success in that field then fame sort of comes along with it. But I don't know if I'm sort of media fodder like other people are. I'm essentially a family man.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

If anyone really thinks that I've ruined [sexual assault] reporting for women, I'm terribly sorry. And if anybody really thinks I'm clamouring for fame on the back of women who were assaulted, that's terrible.

I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

I'm still working! I think of all the other comics that didn't get the light shined on them, just because it's just how fame works, and it's unfortunate. But there are so many great comics out there who are still working, and I still see them.

Playing Mrs.Baskets was an interesting experience for me. It was the most rewarding thing I've done since Life With Louie. So you never know: If somebody asks you to put a wig and a dress on, you shouldn't just say "no" right away.You should at least see if there's money, fame, and satisfaction involved.

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

It is strange what society will endure from its idols.

Fame is bought by happiness.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

I don't even think about fame at all.

I think for much of the middle classes, nothing could be more fantastic than to have a contact with fame. But once you have that contact with fame and find out how vacuous it is, that it doesn't answer anything or supply any ultimate revelation to cosmic dilemmas and you're still left with yourself, then it's back to the drawing room with fading light and one light bulb out in the very expensive chandelier that no one has bothered to replace.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...

The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

I think the fame aspect, there was definitely a period when I had to get used to it. My family had to get used to it, too. It's exciting.