Fame Quotes · Page 146

We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...

— Scott Westerfeld

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

— Famke Janssen

If you're going to go the way of 'American Idol,' then you better be able to do what you want musically, because…

— Beth Hart

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete…

— Van Morrison

I think fame is one of those things where you have a window of opportunity and you have a certain amount of…

— Patrick Dempsey

Name, fame, money - nothing is forever. I am just grateful for the experiences and the opportunities I get.

— Shibani Dandekar

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant…

— Jodhi May

There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind…

— Ashton Kutcher

I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when…

— Jim Carrey

It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is…

— Petrarch

It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No…

— Corra May Harris

If you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, No, you do not. Whether you need a…

— Narendra Modi

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

With fame, all of a sudden you're seeing yourself through the eyes of a world of men, and that's . . .…

— Rose McGowan

Whenever I have to do anything fan-related there's always a whole bunch of people. My brain kind of shuts down when there…

— Robert Pattinson

I'm not a famous director yet, and I'm not into fame. I like to just work. As a director, as an actor,…

— Tommy Wiseau

“If you ride the bucking peaks and troughs of celebrity long enough you become a national treasure. If you have the sense…

— Kate Lord Brown

I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in…

— Molly Ringwald

Wealth, age, and fame are like drinking from the salty ocean water. The more you drink the thirstier you get!

— Anas

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the…

— Henry Miller

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go…

— Nathan Lane

Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have - nice things - but happiness?…

— Dani Alves

I went to America not for fame or fortune but to be able to communicate with the biggest audience.

— Donovan

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have…

— Ryan Seacrest

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

— Sallust

This celebrity thing has been interesting. It's hard to get used to, because I don't see myself as a celebrity.

— Ron Stallworth

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one…

— Robbie Williams

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

— Tina Brown

Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just…

— Jodie Foster

“There's nothing wrong in being rich and famous, so long as you're giving back more than you're keeping for yourself.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I don't think of myself as a kind of celebrity, but wherever I go, people know me; they greet me.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.

— Swami Vivekananda

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve…

— David Mallet

I'm not complaining at all but 'A Star Is Born' hasn't helped my career in like, opportunity terms.

— Willam Belli

I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

— Orison Swett Marden

“The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out…

— Erin Watt

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to…

— Wynonna Judd