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Artists should never think of themselves as an idol. Fame is a side effect of one's work.
I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
I think fame is really dangerous and... I don't really like to get too involved in it all.
If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.
I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.
Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.
I thought TV fame was hip... well, that was because I hadn't experienced rock star fame yet.
What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.
There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.
I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.
Money and fame are trashy and don't guarantee happiness, but we all refuse really to know it.
I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.
It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)
Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.
You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life.
Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.
I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.
The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame
The problem of fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you do can alter the name.
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers end.
I don't think it's up to you to say you belong in The Hall of Fame. That's up to someone else.
The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.
I love getting into restaurants and getting free stuff - that part of fame I definitely enjoy!
Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.
Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.
To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that.
A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers