Quotes About Fame

I am often late for planes. The airlines know me now, they call at home and ask, 'How much later will you be today?

The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.

Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.

I think I'm still clean living. That's - I mean I don't go home and have orgies or anything like that. I'm still the same person I've always been.

I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. In all honesty, I'm just doing me.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

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.

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

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

Honor is but an empty bubble.

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more.

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.

Being famous without honor is a thing of no worth.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.