Quotes About Fame

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.

They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away.

I'm famous. Ain't that a bitch?

[Upon being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer:] Which would you rather be—a victor in the Olympic games, or the announcer of the victor?

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.