I couldn't lie to get myself fame and fortune.
I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.
But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
Fame can be very dangerous, because you can start to enjoy that part of it. And that's not the good part of what I do for a living. The good part is the making of films. The unpleasant part is the fame part, if you're not careful.
Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too
At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.