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I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
Pete Rose may not make the Hall of Fame, but a statue of him is going to be erected outside the Cincinnati Reds ballpark.
Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.
I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older.
If thou wilt receive profit, read with humility, simplicity and faith, and seek not at any time the fame of being learned.
People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.
Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.
The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.
My success is not about the wealth and fame. I am most concerned with my relationship to God, which is the most important.
If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past.
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .
Modest fame is not to be despised by the highest characters. [Lat., Modestiae fama neque summis mortalibus spernenda est.]
Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You're terrified that, when people know the real you, they won't like you.
Don't cling to fame. You're just borrowing it. It's like money. You're going to die, and somebody else is going to get it.
I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.
What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
Once you have the money, fame, success or power, it's so easy to maintain that, because all you have to do is play it safe.
I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.
Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.
I started to hate fame, I didn't want to go out, because I didn't want to be recognised for what I was being recognised for.
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.
I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.
Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
I dont have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.
The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.
Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not To wound the fame of princes, if it find But any blemish in their lives to work on.
I never set out to achieve anything, certainly not fame like this,I still have to deal with how to actually make my life work.
Do not let the artificial obliterate the natural; do not let will obliterate destiny; do not let virtue be sacrificed to fame.
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones.
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.