Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
Fame is a curse… it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I’ll never have to go through again.
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
The way people get hooked on fame… it can behave very much like an addiction.
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Fame doesn’t end loneliness.
It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A lot of people identify who they are by what they do and that’s not me. It’s what I do but not who I am. Who I am is a parent. I’m a family man.
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
But what I’d really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.
One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, ‘War’s glorious art’, and gives immortal fame.
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you’re not that visible in the first place, but, after the Broadway success of ‘Beauty Queen,’ people were coming up to me all the time, and I wasn’t really prepared for that level of attention.
I’ve been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in ’80, ’81.
Fame overcomes everything.
One day in 1984, at the height of his fame, Michael Jackson made a visit to the White House. President and Nancy Reagan may not have dug his music, but they understood the power Mr. Jackson commanded as a common pop-cultural touchstone for just about everyone else.
I do not ask for the riches that perish or the fame that fades away like a morning mist.
Part of me feels it’s better we’re not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can’t just say, ‘hi’. You say hi and people whisper’ man did you see the way she said hi? What an attitude.
Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood’s most powerful agency.
Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. ‘Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they’re a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole.
Jason Bourne is supposed to be really sneaky and spry, but as soon as he walks by, everybody pulls out their cell phones and starts recording. That level of fame is wild to see.
Really, I think of fame as distracting; it’s something you have to get around.
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Fame doesn’t make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I am just myself. I always will be. Whoever wants to talks to me, talks to me. Whoever loves me, loves me for who I am.
I just like people. I’ll hold a conversation at a gas station. It’s not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it’s pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it’s still sort of unbelievable to me.
You are not born for fame if you don’t know the value of time.
I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don’t want any of the other stuff.
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I’ve been there and not won it. It’s really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don’t end up with the ring you’re never satisfied.
Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.
Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.
You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it’s a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There’s so much damage, there’s no way.
Fame for fame’s sake is toxic – some people want that, with no boundaries. It’s unhealthy.
My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
‘American Idol’ is the fast track to fame. I’m just lucky it worked out. I don’t feel different. The way people react to me is different.
Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Obviously there’s something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you’re doing them for the wrong reasons – for money, or for fame.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for everything, but I don’t wanna make it seem like I wouldn’t be able to survive without fame. ‘Cause I did it for 13 years.
Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn’t eligible for another fifteen years.
Having your work be the basis of fame, that’s a far more stable feeling.
Tom Seaver was let loose twice by the Mets and pitched a no-hitter for the Reds and won his 300th game for the White Sox, but he wears a Mets cap in the Hall of Fame as homage to the 1969 championship.
I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.
I find fame to be quite unnatural. Humans are not built for extreme adoration.
My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.
It’s not the money. It’s not the fame. It’s the influence.
I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry themselves about style, and so cease to be themselves. Without a master, without a model, without a guide, I go to work and earn my living, my well-being and my fame.
You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don’t sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
There’s so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the ‘Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn’t like me…’
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life and you think to yourself, ‘How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we’re in?’
I want to make the most out of the word ‘fame.’ I want to do good things with my fame, or whatever it is. I want to help and do charity work.
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
There’s a lot of goals I’ve set in the WWE that I want to accomplish. I’m always setting goals for myself, and someday I want to be in the Hall of Fame.
If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Fame is a dangerous thing. It’s what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can’t provide that.
I don’t really care about having more fame than I have.
Otherwise, to be a movie star, it’s a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can’t do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don’t want it.
