Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Clemens

I wanted to thank her properly at the Hall of Fame, ... But I keep playing this silly game.

Marilyn Monroe

It stirs up envy, fame does. People...feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you--and it won't hurt your feelings--like it's happening to your clothing.

Patty Griffin

Fame is a can of worms I haven't really had to contend with.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poet's food is love and fame.

Pierre Corneille

To myself alone do I owe my fame.

Pierre Corneille

To myself alone do I owe my fame. [Fr., Je ne dois qu'a moi seul toute ma renommee.]

Elvis Presley

Fame and fortune, how empty they can be.

Jimmy Nail

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

Gustave Flaubert

What is glory? It is to have a lot of nonsense talked about you.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

Little Richard

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Neil Strauss

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

Mike Myers

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Nick Mancuso

Fame is everywhere; the 15 minutes are now the dominant themes of our times.

Madonna Ciccone

Fame is a form of misunderstanding.

Marianne Faithfull

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Mickey Mantle

I had it all and blew it.

Publilius Syrus

Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody.

Oliver Hudson

Personally, fame never really played any part in our family life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Fame is bought by happiness.

L. Frank Baum

I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-wisp.

Paul Mooney

If you have money and you have fame, but you don't have any confidence in your blackness, then it's all for nothing.

Patricia Richardson

When youre a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someones motives are.

Nancy Wilson

Grammys are fine, stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame - they're OK,

There is tremendous pressure today to be first. If you do something first, all the money and fame will come to you. All that is an obvious seduction for doing something like this.

Tom Hiddleston

Fame is weird and amorphous and unpredictable.

Rajneesh

Without possessions, success, fame; who are you?

Noel Redding

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

Noel Gallagher

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

Peter Criss

I'll always be the catman.

Michael Caine

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

If Larry is being inducted into the hall of fame, I know that he's worthy of it.

Moon Unit Zappa

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.