Quotes About Fame

My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.

It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

Fame and success are very different things.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

It's nothing to do with us at all, our success is due to the taste of the public.

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

Elvis Presley... had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?

I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.

I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.