Quotes About Fame

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.

Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you.

I think the attraction of 'American Idol' is about the basic human nature attitude that is, 'We can put you up there. But we can take you down.'

There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

Selling millions of records is great, but at the end of the day it really doesn't bring peace.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me.

So many young pets burn out in Hollywood, it's crazy.

I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.

Not fame, but wisdom is the beauty of life.

I am not moved by riches and fame, but selflessness and a passion for humanity.

Fame is like drifting clouds, transient and ephemeral. Memory is forever.

Death is her name, Who walks in her garden of fame, And plucks flowers for her lock, Which has the power to ride a flock.