Twenty-two years I've been doing this comedy lark, so it's been like a meteoric rise to fame... if the meteor was being… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it'll recede. In fact, I know it will. That's life… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between… — Florence King Copy Share Image
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
Quite often the things that fascinated you from childhood are the very things that will bring you fame and fortune. — Tassel Daley Copy Share Image
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do. — Jenna Jameson Copy Share Image
I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads… — Robert Loveman Copy Share Image
You get early inoculation against the idea of success if you're a poet. When I published my first collection of sonnets, I… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I don't know if I was ever looking for this kind of success- it came along as a by-product of concentrating on… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
I didn't even know how to speak Hindi or act. I didn't think about fame and money. I didn't talk about money… — Krystle D'Souza Copy Share Image
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated. — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
I've never chased fame. I came into this business to be a theatre actress. I was nine when I first appeared on… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity. — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I think if I'd been born ten years earlier when Ma was at the height of 'Avengers' fame, it would have been… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
