Fame Quotes - Page 7

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

Being famous is just a job.

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

Fame is a very strange animal.

Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

I have to look over my shoulder all the time, be really vigilant because at any moment, someone could be filming me or recording what I'm saying.

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.

I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.

I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left but to become infamous.

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think.

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.