Fame Quotes - Page 28

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

I have a daughter and the thing I wish for her is not love, fame, money or anything like that. It's just one great best friend. You know, if you have somebody that has your back, you're gonna be all right.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but I cannot go against it. But it's true that our industry is just full of people who actually really look good. It's the criteria of our generation.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Fame means absolutely nothing except a good table at a restaurant.

Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

With fame, in just proportion, envy grows.

Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.