Fame Quotes · Page 85

You never know how long your fifteen minutes of fame is going to last.

— Jeff Dunham

Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end.

— Mason Cooley

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

— Dani Alves

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.

— George Steinbrenner

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I get the celebrity game now - you can go from being hot to fighting to be seen.

— Katharine McPhee

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

— Blaise Pascal

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion.

— Jake Ellenberger

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.

— Randy Quaid

In Hollywood you'll see a lot of big stars supporting non-profits which is so great but Paul really wanted to be a…

— Cody Walker

Before, it had been fame, and then super-fame came. And then it became super-super-fame. One loses one's personal life, really; you're recognized…

— Donovan

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was…

— William Gibson

You can't win fame; you have to earn it. If you're given fame without working for it, then you're not going to…

— Lemmy

It's a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it's difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that…

— Peter Billingsley

My father, my grandfather, the wrestling business, the WWE in particular, has really given me everything. A lot of happiness, my kids…

— Randy Orton

I'm just going to take this in a minute. The wrestling world, we're kind of our own breed and different from maybe…

— Amy Dumas

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened…

— Alanis Morissette

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just…

— Moneybagg Yo

When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities…

— Jim Rash

“She taught me at a young age to keep God first, dress as if you deserve the job, and never treat anyone…

— Carlos Wallace

One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop…

— Mary Antin

Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.

— Alexander Smith

I always had a repulsive sort of need to be something more than human.

— David Bowie

I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

— Nneka

I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.

— Tony Bellew

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

— Macy Gray

Hopefully I can end up in the WWE Hall of Fame one day.

— Pat McAfee

I definitely don't want to achieve some kind of rock star status.

— Ethan Suplee

Unsuccessful people are the ones who are impressed by celebrity, by people's names and titles.

— Robin S. Sharma

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

— Aisha Tyler

I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.

— Macaulay Culkin

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous.

— Dave Chappelle

I'm a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

— Sammo Hung

Being the new Eddy Merckx is not something I want to hear. I want to be somebody new.

— Remco Evenepoel

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

— Cory Monteith

“What I'd really like to say about stardom is it gave me everything i never wanted.”

— Ava Gardner

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

— Tadashi Shoji