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When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was about playing football.
I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.
The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
What the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what does it do besides talk about itself and sell postcards?
2007 began on a high for me because I had the honour of having my name added the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame.
But as far as the fame goes, my parents make sure they keep me grounded, for sure. They make me wash dishes still.
The fame aspect of winning the Masters... besides being married and becoming a father, that's a strong third there.
The one Hall of Fame that I refuse to go in is the WWE Hall of Fame because do you know where it's at? Where is it?
Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.
I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
Obviously social media has had a massive impact on the fame game, but not in a positive way. But it can be for some.
It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
Fame, I mean, it's like a bubble, in a way. It's like something glittery, and it goes, and it can be forgotten fast.
If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
His best-known piece is probably his "Canon in D." He also has 'Hexachordium Apollonis', which is also quite famous.
The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.
Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!
The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Instant fame, attention, getting flown around the world and those other fringe benefits never really rang true for me.
Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
Pelé is one of the few who contradicted my theory: instead of fifteen minutes of fame, he will have fifteen centuries.
Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame
It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.
I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
'Sacred Games' is a huge milestone in my career, as I have never received such fame, attention, and success in my life.
I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown.
People afraid of criticism but I always put myself in a sacrificial position,they been know I ain't just rappin for fame
Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but for me, it was a new beginning.