Quotes About Fame

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude."

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.

I want to be known as 'The Big Shakespeare.' It was Shakespeare that said, 'Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them.'

The Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, is gonna be the man of '96.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

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

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

I have no aspiration whatsoever to be the next great leading man.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.