Quotes About Fame

It worries me a little bit the reach and power of TV. More people saw me in The Practice than will ever see me in all the stage plays I ever do. Which is sort of humbling. Or troubling. Or both.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

The power of telly is surprising. If you're in a six-part series, you're famous while it's on - people point in the street. Two weeks later it all goes back to normal.

Knowledge is power as well as fame.

The Giver of Life enrages us, He intoxicates us here.No one is at His sideto be famous, to rule on Earth.

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.

Celebrity has some amazing advantages, of course it does. You're given an extraordinary power. It's a door-opener. I might not have to queue for things.

Avoid popularity it has many snares and no real benefit.

Quiet consummation have;And renowned be thy grave!

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

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

I do know of these,That therefore only are reputed wiseFor saying nothing.

The painful warrior famoused for fight,After a thousand victories, once foil'd,Is from the books of honor razed quite,And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd.

Live to be the show and gaze o' the time.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness;And from that full meridian of my glory,I haste now to my setting: I shall fallLike a bright exhalation in the evening,And no man see me more.

Being an icon is overrated, remember an icon can be moved by a mouse

We'd thought we were making a TV show; instead, we had flown boldly into legend.

Normal" women were rare, unless one considered Judy Garland a normal woman.

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame, a grave to rest in, and a fading name!

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who's bigger, who's smarter, who's best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.