I never wanted fame, of all things, and I’m not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come with being famous, but there’s also confusion. It’s important to make sure your feet stay on the ground.
My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They’re very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
I’m part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We’ve seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out.
You don’t want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
If you change because of fame, that’s not the right thing. But if you change because of growth, that’s normal… The whole fame thing hasn’t hit me. And I hope it kind of doesn’t.
The fame aspect of winning the Masters… besides being married and becoming a father, that’s a strong third there.
I’m not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that is the ultimate tragedy of fame… People who are simply out of control, who are lost. I’ve seen so many of them, and I don’t want to be another cliche.
Fame necessarily isn’t really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it’s good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous.
They say fame is important and that maintaining your fame is even more important. But to me, the most important thing is to deserve the respect of your fans.
I started to hate fame, I didn’t want to go out, because I didn’t want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.
There is a theory in showbiz circles that mentally you remain the same age as when you first tasted fame, and I think there is a grain of truth in this.
My happiness doesn’t come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
Passion is the thing that sustains you in acting. If you’re doing it for fame and money, don’t even bother because it will never happen. The last thing I ever expected was to be paid for this.
I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don’t have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: ‘They’ll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I’ll never come back.’
Fame is really strange. One day you’re not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply – yet everyone looks at you differently.
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
Make sure your desire to do what you’re aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Fame an fortune are nothing if you’re not happy and healthy.
We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.
I think if I’d been born ten years earlier when Ma was at the height of ‘Avengers’ fame, it would have been a different kettle of fish altogether, but she was very much a ma first and an actress second for my formative years.
If you wanna be famous, then it’s okay if the music is fake, because fame isn’t real.
I didn’t want to be an actress at all, or famous even. I certainly enjoy acting now, absolutely. Time will tell whether or not I enjoy fame.
I believe very strongly – and I never brought this up as a player – but I put up, I feel, Hall of Fame numbers with diabetes. If I didn’t have diabetes – nobody realizes that, when I was diagnosed at 18, even the doctors didn’t know what to do about diabetes.
Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one’s work.
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life.
I’m not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn’t bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
There’s no problem with trying to be successful, but it’s all about just doing good work. It’s not about fame.
There’s a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.
There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.
Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You’ve got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
My job isn’t about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It’s about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that’s fine.
I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it’s controlling you it doesn’t feel good at all.
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
I’ve always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.
Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
I don’t know if fame will come.
Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like ‘Fame’.
I’m a normal working actor – just the way I want it. I have never been the one to want the fame of everything. The thing for me is to inspire people and do something I love.
I’m not interested in fame at all.
The 50 greatest players don’t matter when you’re in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest – in my mind.
‘Fame’ exhausts me.
Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it’s a wonderful business but it’s make-believe, you must remember that. That’s one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy.
To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.
The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don’t need money and you don’t need fame, then you’re free.
I don’t want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don’t think owners should be.
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn’t delineate between legal and illegal.
Fame for me is like a place, a country I’m taking a tour through.
I have struggled hard to attain this fame.
It’s not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.
There’s some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
I have fame on the level of a Marilyn Monroe or an Elvis Presley, but part of the reason I didn’t go the way they did was because of my beliefs. People make judgments about Scientology, but often they don’t know what they’re talking about.
If you have money and you have fame, but you don’t have any confidence in your blackness, then it’s all for nothing.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.
I’m a creative person, and I’ve got a lot of ideas. People probably thought that my mentality was quick fame because I made ‘Rack City’ and it blew up fast, but I have over 1,000 songs recorded.
Fame is a beast that you can’t control or be prepared for.
I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don’t know why anyone would want to be famous. I can’t imagine what need that would fill.
