Fame Quotes

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.