I know how I felt when I saw things like ‘Fame’ on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that ‘Smash’ is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.
I can’t watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don’t recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.
Fame is part of me and my life as an actor. I enjoy the creative aspects of my life as an actor. I enjoy directing and acting as well. But the bottom line for me is not prestige and power. It’s about having an exciting, creative life.
The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
Fame is a lot of fun, but it’s not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn’t have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
Legacy above finances; artistry above fame.
I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can’t say I really remember too much about it.
A REAL man would never lead a woman on, try to humiliate or hurt them, or try to intimidate them once you have broken up for the sake of more camera time or fame.
I think it’s child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it’s at the cost of someone’s natural development. It’s already hard enough to develop.
Fame doesn’t redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you’re finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
With fame, I’m able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
Musicians play music because you love… I loved to play drums since I was five. It’s all I ever wanted to do. Rock stars, or as we call them, posers, guys who want to just look great, dress great. They’re not musicians; they’re looking for the fame.
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of the mouths of other people.
People assume that somehow fame and wealth will keep mortality at bay.
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of ‘normal life.’
I’ve been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I’ve had some very, very preliminary discussions about doing it. Obviously, I can’t do it myself, but there are a lot of people interested in that.
I feel my advantage of coming from a film family is – having seen fame up close, having seen the industry so close and how it works, I was not enamored by fame.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Hollywood is the kind of town that likes to make everything larger than life: movie premieres, aging actress’ lips, and murders. Actors come from all over the world to find their sliver of fame on the street of L.A. Many stars rise, but many more fall.
With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship-it’s a leech.
I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.
I don’t consider myself a rock star chef, I really don’t. I cook for a living and I try to help out as many people as I can in my life and that’s all I care about. I don’t care about the fame of television, I use to a lot.
That should be the measure of success for everyone. It’s not money, it’s not fame, it’s not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.
I never gave up as a player, and I won’t give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it’s the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.
First, the newcomers are eager to come in front of the camera, and later they are like, ‘No, sorry, sorry, no pictures’. What is this? I say fame is a very dangerous and bitter thing.
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don’t do anything.
When I came into baseball, I had one goal for my career – the Hall of Fame.
Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch – unless he’s Humphrey Bogart.
Acting is a life experience. I’m always learning things when I’m making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.
Fame is an interesting phenomenon.
Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
I would rather be here in the Philly Hall of Fame than the NBA Hall of Fame.
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.
You’re only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you’re still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.
Fame does lead to money, which I don’t have a close relationship with. I’m the kind of guy who never sees the money – it all goes somewhere else. I don’t understand it, I don’t like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.
Nobody has ever denied that when it comes to his trade – gigolo – John Forbes Kerry is one of the all-time greats. He’s in the Gigolo Hall of Fame. See, a really good gigolo might snag one heiress in a lifetime with a nine-figure trust fund. Kerry has married two. When it comes to gigolos, he’s Steve Jobs.
One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
Fame may go by and – so long, I’ve had you.
Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.
I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
Fame is like a big piece of meringue – it’s beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn’t really fill you up.
When we were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I asked the guy who runs it, ‘How many people in here have had only two albums?’ He could not think of one person.
I don’t care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren’t going right.
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
He’s just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John’s like that. He’s a very rare man, a very good man, and I’ve had a good life with him. I’m proud to be walking in the wake of Johnny’s fame.
I’m not motivated by money or fame. I’m more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
I never got a chance to take advantage of ‘Superbad’ at school because I graduated before it came out, so I never got to use any of my fame to pick up girls and go to cool parties.
In one of my songs, I say fame is nothing more than loving someone. So I’m grateful every day that there’s so many fans of people out there that love my music and feel they’re connected to me through that.
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren’t even pausing to consider an option other than lying.
