Quotes About Fame

“The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.”

— Boyd K. Packer

“Fame must be like being a candy in a child factory!”

— Geoffroy Birtz

“Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.”

— J.K. Rowling

“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.”

— Adrian Grenier

“Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.”

— Edward Norton

“A screenplay adaptation of my 'Punktown' novel 'Health Agent' has been making the rounds. The screenplay was written by my friend, singer/songwriter Walter Egan of 'Magnet & Steel' fame!”

— Jeffrey Thomas

“I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.”

— Richard O'Brien

“I had an early taste of fame. I was 20, going out with TV presenter Dani Behr and we'd have paparazzi chasing us. I'm not comfortable being photographed, though I accept it is part of the job. I had to ask myself, 'What comes first, being a celebrity or footballer?'”

— Ryan Giggs

“This really drove home to me that Hugh Everett was no exception: studying the foundations of physics isn't a recipe for glamour and fame. It's more like art: the best reason to do it is because you love it. Only a small minority of my physics colleagues choose to work on the really big questions, and when I meet them, I feel a real kinship. I imagine that a group of friends who've passed up on lucrative career options to become poets might fell a similar bond, knowing that they're all in it not for the money but for the intellectual adventure.”

— Max Tegmark

“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.”

— Gene Hackman

“I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is ... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.”

— George Brett

“What you're looking for is already inside you. You've heard this before, but the holy thing inside you really is that which causes you to seek it. You can't buy it, lease it, rent it, date it, or apply for it. The best job in the world can't give it to you. Neither can succes, or fame, or financial security - besides which, there ain't no such thing.”

— Anne Lamott

“When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.”

— Muhammad Ali

“You gotta remember: we're musicians ... we're just crazy people who can't get along sometimes. I've definitely come to the table with my knife in my pocket a couple of times; you know how it is. It's part of being human. Now add fame and money and all that rock and roll craziness to it - we're lucky we don't eat each other in this industry!”

— Corey Taylor

“Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.”

— Joni Mitchell

“I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.”

— Nancy Sinatra

“I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.”

— Paul Henderson

“Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.”

— Peter Dinklage

“Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.”

— Patrick Dempsey

“I've heard many say "I'll sell my soul to the Devil"
in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.
Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?
And the Devil if there is one wouldn't simply wait for them to condemn themselves on their own”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth ... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.”

— Julie Burchill

“The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.”

— Libba Bray

“Money and fame made me believe I was entitled. I was wrong and foolish.”

— Tiger Woods

“I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

“The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July.”

— Ralph Kiner

“Love of learning will never let you down. You can have a quest for money, you can have a quest for power, you can have a quest for fame and they are sometimes gratifying and sometimes self-destructive. The love of learning is always gratifying and never self-destructive. The more educated, the more cultivated a society becomes, better off is everybody.”

— David McCullough

“There was a time when fame meant that you were either someone who is really gifted in your field or you were making an impact or you are famous because you were a really horrible person, you know? But now, you can become famous by eating a frog. It's just not the same thing.”

— Debbie Allen

“My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.”

— Fetty Wap

“I think people use fame as an excuse to lose their faith. Faith is obviously my number one priority and I think you need to put God at the top of everything you do.”

— Sadie Robertson

“The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.”

— Benjamin Haydon

“Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.”

— Bliss Carman

“I really appreciate when people use their fame and their voice for more than just self-promotion, starting a dialogue about a topic or an issue much bigger than themselves.”

— Questlove

“A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.”

— Michel De Montaigne

“The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.”

— Ann Voskamp

“If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.”

— Morgan Freeman

“The thing about fame, is you never think it's going to happen to you. So when it does, it's sort of a shock. Some people are just better at it than others.”

— Orlando Bloom

“Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.”

— Ouida

“Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.”

— John Milton

“I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.”

— Brad Paisley

“I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.”

— Julia Roberts

“2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.”

— Halle Berry

“Actors, politicians, and writers-all of us are but creatures of the hour. Long-lasting fame comes to but few.”

— Louis L’Amour

“The nights seem to me too long ... I am often scolded by Madame Pasteur, but I tell her I shall lead her to fame.”

— Louis Pasteur

“It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,
or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!”

— D.H. Lawrence

“All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal”

— Robert E.Lee