Fame Quotes - Page 8

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.

When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.

I don't feel like a big star.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

I had it all and blew it.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

A good reputation is better than fame.

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

Fame is a form, perhaps the worst form, of incomprehension.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.