Quotes About Fame

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you about what you think. You feel like a real phony.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

It was peculiar to be standing so close to him. He's just a man, but still, what a thing to be Neil Armstrong!

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

Hollywood is weird, man. The child-actor world is the weirdest. But somehow I survived.

When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career.

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutable, and fame precarious.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much... still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Americas presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.