Quotes on Fame

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

Fifteen minutes of fame doesn't make a career. An article in a magazine, newspaper, interview on television or multiple print ads may stroke your ego, but nothing much else. An artist's career is a lifetime venture. Just because an artist is on top doesn't mean they are sheltered from a crash. As has been stated, the higher you climb, the harder you fall.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.

At the end of the day, it's not about starting a game in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl, or getting to the Hall of Fame. It's about representing yourself in a way that represents your faith.

On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame

Fame itself... doesn't really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

I didn't go into the Hall of Fame until I was a Hall of Famer. Three times I had been there, I never stepped foot inside.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that floats; Rice Krispies the breakfast cereal that goes snap-crackle-pop; Philip Roth the Jew who masturbates with a piece of liver.