Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.
I was never carried away by success and have learnt from the failures. Satisfaction is what I crave for; fame and wealth are just by-products.
Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor’s shoulders.
That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I’ve seen it happen with people. You know, it’s so hard to stay normal. It’s so hard to stay happy. It’s hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.
I don’t like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.
I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.
Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
That’ll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I’m not delusional.
Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It’s something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.
I think anybody who’s famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who’s looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it’s not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you’re truly blessed. I think that’s where we are now.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
I do not want fame.
The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
I was for sure not prepared for fame when it happened.
I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that’s really good, because that is what it’s about.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn’t win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I’m proud to be in this company that way.
Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
No, fame has not changed Wizkid.
I’m very serious about what I write and who I allow to produce the music, because I want to make sure it’s a true album, and not just something pushed out there to create hype and more fame for myself.
I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I’ve experienced them both.
Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
I’ve made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don’t deserve to be there. They’re trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that – allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren’t relevant to me at all.
That’s what fame does to you. You acquire another self.
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
It’s success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I’m addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
I think fame can come and go.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.
It’s probably healthier to find fame later in life.
Maybe it’s my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it’s longer.
Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so – like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don’t want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.
I was conscious of my father’s fame from the time I was 6.
When you’re a performer, of course you want an audience, but it’s very, very different from courting fame.
Fame made me develop a panic disorder.
It does seem true that a lot of people will do anything, however humiliating, for fame.
I think fame became exciting for me in the late ’90s because I could actually use it as a means to an end. I could actually have it help me serve my vocationfulness.
You know, I never looked down the road and said, ‘Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.’ It’s always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.
In college, I was an education major and qualified for several jobs. But the fame that came with the Olympic medals was too threatening to many people.
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
I’ve written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don’t have it.
Fame should be left to the film stars.
If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
You’re asking the wrong girl about fame. I’m hardly famous. I wouldn’t want to trade places with anyone else.
Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn’t because of the racist element in the record business.
The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on my second cycle of fame, and I want to make films that smell real and are truthful.
If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It’s been important for me to cloister myself off.
Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.
I’ve seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it’s ugly.
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
I’m shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I’ve done everything I can to avoid it.
Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.
With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I’ve always felt about that decision – it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
That’s one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.
My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.
The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.
Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they’re gone, you know, and they’re following somebody else.
