Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Chappelle

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

Catherine Deneuve

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

Casey Stengel

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

Aidan Quinn

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Edgar Degas

I would like to be famous but unknown.

Elizabeth Kostova

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

When you say 47 percent out of the first 10 picks made the Hall of Fame, that's a high percentage.

Charles Sumner

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Chance The Rapper

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

Bob Marley

I handle fame by not being famous...I'm not famous to me.

Ben Affleck

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

Barbra Streisand

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

William Shakespeare

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

Bob Dylan

Ironically, this was Bob Dylan's period [1967-74] of greatest fame.

Brigitte Bardot

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

Juvenal

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

Jay DeMarcus

Mohegan Sun Walk of Fame. It's been an incredible ride, and our fans have been a big part of it.

David Bowie

Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up

George Clooney

There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.

Corey Hart

There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.

Luanne Rice

A lot of writers dream of feature films, but television - by way of TNT, CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark Hall of Fame - has always called my name. And after seeing 'True Detective,' can there be any doubt that the storytelling on TV is as genius as it gets?

Albert Einstein

Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.

Rich and those guys laid the foundation. With him getting in the Hall of Fame, it puts our program on the map within the University. It shows that even though we might not have something like a national championship, we still have a program that has a lot of tradition.

Mike Schmidt

Personally, I think the timing and manner of the book's release, given that it overshadowed the New York Hall of Fame news conference, sealed Pete's fate. For some reason, the commissioner wants to keep Pete on permanent hold.

Joanna Lumley

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Yvan Cournoyer

But the Stanley Cups, the Summit series, the Hall of Fame and now having my jersey retired - it couldn't end up better.

Jane Harman

Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.

Pablo Picasso

Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

Don King

gained his fame not by winning, but by losing.

Edmund Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.