Quotes About Fame

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

The Thin Man was a good break, because it was highly popular. I played a gigolo in it.

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

If you want to get known as a singer you hire five sexy chicks and let them fight over you onstage and for the cameras. That's publicity, man.

A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

Every man I have ever known has fallen in love with Gilda and awakened with me.

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

A man may have the best of wealth, cars and fame. But there is nothing more precious in life that he will get than a woman's heart.

Ladies & Gentelman, the man who tought William Kennedy Smith everything he knows about dating, Sweet Stan Lane!

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.

You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

I am the man who put the hair in hair metal.