Fame Quotes - page 14

Don't come into the music industry. It's almost inevitable that you'll psychologically be quite screwed up. Fame isn't a natural, human, behavioural thing. You get alienated. You're not really surrounded by truth. (Katie Melua)
I can't win. Love is Russian roulette for me. No one loves the real me inside. they're all in love with my fame, my stardom. I fall in love far too quickly and end up getting hurt all the time. I've got scars all over. But I can't help myself because basically I'm a softie I have this hard, macho shell - which I project on stage but there's a much softer side. too, which melts like butter. View quote
Freddie Mercury
Seem like the more fame, I only got wilder Hands up, we just doing what the cops taught us I've been outta my mind a long time I've been outta my mind a long time I be saying how I feel at the wrong time Might not come when you want but I'm on time. Name one genius that ain't crazy. View quote
Kanye West
My big claim to fame during the three years I was at Stratford was understudying Henry V and going on without any rehearsal - and I tell that story in the show. ... Tyrone Guthrie, a great English director of that time, said to me - I was understudying Chris Plummer - and they said, "Plummer's ill. Can you go on?" And I had never rehearsed the part, never spoken the part out loud. And I went on. View quote
William Shatner
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life. View quote
Tobey Maguire
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. View quote
Edmund Burke
There never, gentlemen, was a period in which the steadfastness of some men has been nut to so sore a trial. It is not very difficult for well-formed minds to abandon their interest; but the separation of fame and virtue is an harsh divorce. Liberty is in danger of being made unpopular to Englishmen. Contending for an imaginary power, we begin to acquire the spirit of domination, and to lose the relish of honest equality. View quote
Edmund Burke
Those who are actuated by the desire of fame and glory are amazingly gratified by approbation and praise, even though it comes from their inferiors. View quote
Pliny the Younger
Fame, whose sweet voice whispers of phantom bliss to you proud mortals, and who seems so fair, is a mere echo, dream, dream lost in shade, at every wind-puff scattered and unmade. View quote
Torquato Tasso
In what a narrow circuit, among what abandoned solitudes your fame lies bound! Amid vast seas your island earth is shut, though "vast" or "ocean", or what words resound to name that sea, are idle names and fond, for what it is: a shallow bog, a pond. View quote
Torquato Tasso
I think that there is this idea that what you should go after is fame. That is a hugely mistaken idea because fame means absolutely nothing. This whole culture of wanting to become famous is on a hiding to nothing, a sign of a society that's lost its way and will only judge people as being valid if they're famous, which of course is all bullshit. As Tom Stoppard said, the only thing that fame means is that more people know you than you know. (Jeremy Irons)
You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. View quote
Alan Shepard
No way that any astronaut worth his salt volunteered for the space program to become a hero. You don't select astronauts who want fame and fortune. You select them because they're the best test pilots in the world, they know it, and it's a personal challenge for them. And the astronauts of today are exactly the same. View quote
Alan Shepard
Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. View quote
W. H. Auden
[Regarding Flashdance-related fame] It was very clear to me that it's not real. It's not real...I was never the little girl who thought I wanted to be famous. My first real quest that I can recall...other than wanting to be a jockey...was trying to figure out who or what God was. That really drove me for quite some time...I had a notion that there was this mystery that I didn't really know anything about, and I wanted to try to figure it out.... so fame was not my driving force. View quote
Jennifer Beals
O Mother, I throw myself on Thy mercy; I take shelter at Thy Hallowed Feet. I do not want bodily comforts; I do not crave name and fame; I do not seek the eight occult powers. Be gracious and grant that I may have pure love for Thee, a love unsmitten by desire, untainted by any selfish ends - a love craved by the devotee for the sake of love alone. And grant me the favour, O Mother, that I may not be deluded by Thy world-bewitching māyā, that I may never be attached to the world, to "woman and gold", conjured up by Thy inscrutable māyā! O Mother, there is no one but Thee whom I mav call my own. Mother, I do not know how to worship; I am without austerity; I have neither devotion nor knowledge. Be gracious, Mother, and out of Thy infinite mercy grant me love for Thy Lotus Feet. View quote
Ramakrishna
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The present condition of fame is merely fashion. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
My convictions, positive and negative, on all the matters of which you speak, are of long and slow growth and are firmly rooted. But the great blow which fell on me seemed to stir them to their foundation, and had I lived a couple of centuries earlier I could have fancied a devil scoffing at me and them - and asking me what profit it was to have stripped myself of the hopes and consolations of the mass of mankind? To which my only reply was and is - Oh devil! Truth is better than much profit. I have searched over the grounds of my belief, and if wife and child and name and fame were all to be lost to me one after the other as the penalty, still I will not lie. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
In many cases, people who win a Nobel prize, their work slows down after that because of the distractions. Yes, fame is rewarding, but it's a pity if it keeps you from doing the work you are good at. (Charles Hard Townes)
{Fame has] given me a lot of free love -- and that's the best thing fame can afford you. What has it taken away? My privacy. View quote
Gloria Estefan
I'm the Vampire Lestat. Remember me? The vampire who became a super rock star, the one who wrote the autobiography? The one with the blond hair and the blue eyes, and the insatiable desire for visibility and fame? You remember. View quote
Anne Rice
Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
My advice is to get a good agent and a good tax accountant if you ever make any money, and remember, you can't eat fame. And you can't write unless you want to write, and you can't want to unless you feel like it. View quote
William S. Burroughs