I like this town, it’s really great. They’ve put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It’s about the kind of music I like.
I didn’t have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in some way from their daughter’s fame.
You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can’t get away with.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke – the fact that Madonna is in before Rush and Kiss. Those two bands have influenced so many groups and people other than in metal.
All my life, I have taken inventory at intervals. For example, when I became a movie actor and suddenly I had to deal with fame, money and playing so many roles, I lost myself. I said, ‘Who am I?’ And I wrote my first book to deal with that, ‘The Ragman’s Son.’
The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
You don’t have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don’t have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the ‘father of the 24-second clock,’ made the cut.
I’m just happy to be sitting right here in Chicago and right here at U.S. Cellular Field, holding my Hall of Fame press conference. I’m proud of that.
The hardest part of fame and success is adapting to the people around you that’s changing. It changes the way people look at you from how they used to look at you. They listen to you on the radio, they look at you on TV and when people speak on you in a good light, you have a couple people who hold grudges.
I am a creator of TV shows. ‘Lifestyle’ ran for 14 years… that was pleasurable. We also had ‘Runaway’ for eight years. We did two years of a show called ‘The Start of Something Big’, and we did a network series called ‘Fame, Fortune and Romance.’
I try not to focus on fame; I don’t even really know what it means exactly because it’s so fleeting.
Regis and I were inducted into the original Bronx Walk of Fame.
Well, any time you’re faced with fame on that level, it’s – it can be somewhat unnerving because you’re never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you’re sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.
I’ve got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn’t mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Keep da money, cars, fame, and jewelry, and jus give me all the happiness – I’ll be good forever.
I didn’t get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don’t know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
I sacrificed my anonymity for my father, whereas he sacrificed me for his fame.
I guess my claim to fame is I’ve now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
I’m uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.
It is difficult to age because society won’t let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don’t know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I’m not one to make excuses, so I’ll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.
I’m not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It’s just a personal thing, not an ego thing.
I find Maersk fascinating. It is the Coca-Cola of freight with none of the fame. Its parent company, A. P. Moller-Maersk, is Denmark’s largest company, its sales equal to 20 percent of Denmark’s GDP; its ships use more oil than the entire nation.
The people that go on ‘American Idol’ do want some recognition and fame.
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
To put it simply – you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don’t buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.
That’s one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
That is what fame is, isn’t it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.
I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.
‘The Host’ is very much in the same vein as ‘Twilight’, and there’s clearly a huge fan base out there. But I can’t imagine myself being as huge as Robert Pattinson. I’m not sure I could handle that level of fame.
And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It’s fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it’s not real. And it’s totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.
Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You’re always hoping for something like that.
Fame isn’t healthy for a writer.
I don’t even think about fame at all.
I have a following, but it’s small. I have this level of fame where people spot me in the airport, consistently, but they always think they’re the only one who ever has. People will think they win a prize when they recognize me.
The thing about Bollywood is that you can’t just quit it even if you have little fame. You have to stick around and keep trying.
There was definitely a moment, a time after ‘The Hand That Rocks the Cradle’, when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn’t do it, physically, I just couldn’t. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.
I don’t need the fame right now; I’m not running from the law.
I want to be part of Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame, but I don’t want to be part of the kind of Hall of Fame that’s based on voters’ beliefs and assumptions.
Acquaintance lessens fame.
I don’t want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
I feel like it’s big now with the passing of Mac Miller. Rest in peace, Mac Miller, who was a good friend of mine. That just showed people, like, it could happen to anybody. Just because you have fame or money, you’re not immune to negativity and depression and stress.
It’s been a tremendous ride. My 15 years, my 15 minutes of fame, is up.
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.
I don’t really celebrate fame because I get enough attention.
I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don’t do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I’m a little bit lazy. I don’t get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.
Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.
I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.
Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
At the final day, the Savior will not ask about the nature of our callings. He will not inquire about our material possessions or fame. He will ask if we ministered to the sick, gave food and drink to the hungry, visited those in prison, or gave succor to the weak.
If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I’d be able to say ‘thank you’ to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It’s going to be like a dream come true.
