Quotes About Fame

Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.

I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something.

Beckham in Paris will certainly be good for shopping. I love this player but he is not the footballer he was. And if he comes to Paris now it will be to do something other than football.

The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first.

I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

The love of fame usually spurs on the mind. [Lat., Ingenio stimulos subdere fama solet.]

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are.

I love the creative end of acting. But I hate fame.

I wouldn't consider myself a so-called 'celebrity.' Arrrgh, for the love of God!

Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.

I don't get star-stuck. I love Angelina Jolie, though.

I love being a member of KISS.

I loved the hood and still love the hood but I had to realize like Ra you a rapper now you're in the public eye.

I want the attention, I love the attention.

It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.