Fame Quotes - Page 27

It's very hard, when you're a famous person, to "de-famous" your home, but tokens of my fame just felt like a burden for my children. And for me.

Keats longed for fame, but longed above all to deserve it.

You canna expect to be baith grand and comfortable.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

Of course, I came up around music and fame, but this is still my first time experiencing it all. I'm still going through it like anybody else goes through it. But I'm still doing something I've never done before.

Tut, tut — fame clearly isn't everything.

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

Silence, which will save from shame, will also deprive me of fame.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.

It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.

Fame compensates for a column of wants.

But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

There are many waies to fame. {There are many ways to fame.]

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.