Quotes About Fame

And just seeing yourself on buses and billboards in even the smallest town of any country in the world, it's overwhelming sometimes and it's amazing and it's unbelievable.

It's just unbelievable that nearly every gay human being knows who I am now - that's overwhelming.

I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I have an unbelievably beautiful, well-known wife. And the people who criticize me don't.

Nash was a purist. Steve's a Hall of Fame point guard. He was unbelievably good.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.

Ah my friend, if you and I could escape this fray and live forever, never a trace of age, immortal, I would never fight on the front lines again or command you to the field where men win fame.

So in life, some enter the services of fame and others money, but the best choice is that of those few who spend their time in the contemplation of nature, and as lovers of wisdom.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

I say to the young blokes, when you get asked for an autograph, don't knock it back because there'll be a time where no one will ask you.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory—nothing so expensive as glory.

Few of us will ever be famous, I can tell you none of us will be rich. But we will have more important riches –the joy of making the beautiful music.

You remarked once in a fit of pique you had made me famous. You were wrong, my dear. You have made me.

All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

I sniffed stardom. But my nose betrayed me.

Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.