The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.
The rest were vulgar deaths unknown to fame.
We always wish for money, we always wish for fame. We think we have the answers, some things ain't never gonna change.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.
What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.
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.
But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.
someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely in one of those destinies that is ringed around by the transient tinsel of human applause.
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
The crown and glory of life is character. It is the noblest possession of a man, constituting a rank in itself, and an estate in the general good-will; dignifying every station, and exalting every position in society. It exercises a greater power than wealth, and secures all the honor without the jealousies of fame. It carries with it an influence which always tell; for it is the result of proved honor, rectitude, and consistency-qualities which, perhaps more than any other, command the general confidence and respect of mankind.
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.
For virtue only finds eternal Fame.
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.
Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.
