Fame Quotes · Page 117

Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a…

— Jerome Bettis

I want to make the most out of the word 'fame.' I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever…

— Ali Lohan

I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

— Hakeem Olajuwon

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was…

— Samuel Johnson

I'm probably slightly more famous than I've been comfortable with. Famous enough to have my phone calls returned is about as famous…

— Neil Gaiman

Celebrities have more influence to be able to reach out to people, but people are becoming famous on Facebook and social media…

— Shemar Moore

I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.

— KT Tunstall

When a fan says, 'Man, you saved my life; I heard 'Jungleland'... and I cried... and I felt joy in my life…

— Clarence Clemons

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

We know Manny [Pacquiao] is a living legend and a hall of fame for sure. He's one of the greatest fighters that…

— Chris Algieri

When I hear so-called professional journalists ask why we have celebrities speak for us and for the animals, the environment or social…

— Paul Watson

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral…

— Thomas Jefferson

Give us a man of God's own mould Born to marshall his fellow-men; One whose fame is not bought and sold At…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful…

— Alex Kingston

I'm not very interested in fame or notoriety at all - in fact, I'd be pretty bummed out if I woke up…

— Finneas

Because I came into fame so early on, I've never done that. I don't investigate through the Internet about people who I…

— Penn Badgley

I don't necessarily view myself as a 'famous' person, I look at like Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts and think to myself,…

— Cheryl Burke

I don't like fame, I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. This is what I do,…

— Caster Semenya

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'…

— Juliette Lewis

Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It…

— Pablo Picasso

I think fame became exciting for me in the late '90s because I could actually use it as a means to an…

— Alanis Morissette

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but…

— Anonymous

I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.

— Rachael Ray

I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for…

— Anonymous

First of all, I want to say that Dustin is one of the legends of our sport. He is someone who will…

— Islam Makhachev

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

— George Edward Woodberry

I am humbled that Arnold Schwarzenegger will be inducting me into the WWE Hall of Fame. The kindness and support that Arnold…

— Bruno Sammartino

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

— William Gilmore Simms

If I've decided to be a celebrity, I know that it comes at a cost. But people should understand where to draw…

— Sooraj Pancholi

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

— Anonymous

“Fame is a double-edged sword: It will make you gain status and popularity, but also lose motivation and creativity.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Sometimes fame overshadows an artist's music, and we forget just how incredibly talented these people truly are.

— Elvis Duran

My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most…

— Manny Pacquiao

I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a…

— Johnny Weir

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

— Colin Hay

I was suited for fame, and I mean that in the most non-egocentric way. I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy.…

— John Travolta

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

— Nate Silver

I swore to myself that I was never going to lose again, and that's what drives me still. More than money, more…

— Joe Calzaghe

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I…

— Henry Rollins