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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
If Rage gets inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it'll be interesting to see who shows up.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
Being famous is not all that one should want in life...there is much more to life than name and fame.
I started as a lyrical singer. But it was through the pop universe that I reached international fame.
I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.
When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think otherwise.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy.
I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.
I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.
It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.
Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Fame means when your computer modem is broken, the repair guy comes out to your house a little faster.
I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
I never cared about money or fame, and I don't care now. I follow the groove, and money always follows.
My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb.
My failures had a lot to do with my fame. I created Evel Knievel, and then he sort of got away from me.
So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.
Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.
When fame presented itself to me, I was not at a point in my life where I was equipped to deal with it.
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.
Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.
Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
Having been in Hollywood as a shadow, as someone who is almost invisible, I can see fame for what it is.
We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
You want to live your own life, but when you have fame, there are certain things you can't get away with.
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!
But I have no desire for fame and power anymore. I crawled out of the swamp and I'm not crawling back in.
I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.
People want fame and I would never tell a person to not want that, because it's f--ing awesome. Actually.
I would not lose so great an honor As one man more methinks would share with me For the best hope I have.
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.
All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.
Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate
'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.
Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.