Quotes About Fame

Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud.

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achievements who get none. When one man gets a place in the sun, the others are put in a denser shade. From the point of view of the whole group there's no gain whatsoever, and perhaps a loss.

So saith Solomon, Where much is, there are many to consume it; and what hath the owner, but the sight of it with his eyes? The personal fruition in any man, cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody of them; or a power of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; but no solid use to the owner. Do you not see what feigned prices, are set upon little stones and rarities? and what works of ostentation are undertaken, because there might seem to be some use of great riches?

Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

The poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravely and sententiously. They say, look how many feathers she hath, so many eyes she hath underneath; so many tongues; so many voices; she pricks up so many ears.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

After a point, it doesn't matter where you come from. There are many star kids who haven't done well in the industry and rank newcomers who have done amazingly well.

I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.

You know that I can make hits. You know I can do all these rap records.

I want to be a rap icon.

I tell people that the Clipse were the first Internet rap darlings.

I am getting all this fame, but I don't absolutely know what I should rap about.

Why don't you compare me to Sally Jessy Raphael?

Your fame and your success moves much more rapidly than your ability to fund it.

I'm the best SoundCloud rapper.

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel.

I'm the most humble rapper in the industry.

My goal is to be the most ignorant, richest rapper I could be.

I never wanted to be no rapper.

I play a girl called Patti in the film 'Patti Cake$,' and she's a girl from New Jersey, and she dreams of being a famous rapper.

Financially, people always assume you're good when you're a rapper.

I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.

The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.

I almost turned down '8 Mile.' I was due to start 'ER,' and I learned they really wanted me to be in '8 Mile.' I didn't know Eminem; I just knew he was a rapper and saw what everyone else saw in the media. I thought they were just trying to capitalize on his popularity.