Fame Quotes

What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

You're always running into people's unconscious.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else's ideas about you, but what's important is how you feel about yourself - for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down.

Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Spurious fame spreads from tongue to tongue like the fog of the early dawn before the sun rises.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.

I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Neither money pays, nor name pays, nor fame, nor learning; it is CHARACTER that cleave through adamantine walls of difference.