All Quotes

Fame for me is like a place, a country I'm taking a tour through.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
‐‐ Kacey Musgraves

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
‐‐ Zoe Kravitz

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
‐‐ Bill Maher

Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
‐‐ Eminem

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.
‐‐ Veruschka von Lehndorff

Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
‐‐ Jemima Khan

Fame introduced me to a world of instant gratification and decadence I hadn't seen before.
‐‐ Jesse Metcalfe

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.
‐‐ Jodhi May

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

Fame is a constant effort.
‐‐ Jules Renard

Fame is a curse... it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I'll never have to go through again.
‐‐ Sinead O'Connor

Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
‐‐ Hans Rosling

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
‐‐ Patrick Dempsey

Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
‐‐ OMI

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
‐‐ Emily Dickinson

Fame is a fickle thing that only lasts as long as you can be out there offering yourself to the public. And as soon as you relax for five minutes, they're gone, you know, and they're following somebody else.
‐‐ Jesse Stone

Fame is a funny thing. I like doing normal things. I like going to fairs. I like going to ball games. I like going to Disney World or a big field on the Fourth of July and having picnics with friends. The problem is you're either worried you're going to be recognized, or you're thankful you're not. It's always there.
‐‐ Chris Evans

Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
‐‐ Jack Gilbert

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
‐‐ Nick Carter

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.
‐‐ Reba McEntire

Fame is a modern phenomenon caused by the explosion of media, where there's a zillion digital channels and snappers everywhere. It's so attainable, so people can have their Warhol 15 minutes of fame, and some are so aggressive.
‐‐ Simon Fuller

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.
‐‐ Joni Mitchell

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.
‐‐ Tom Conti

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
‐‐ Horace Greeley

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.
‐‐ Scott Hamilton

Fame is a very strange animal.
‐‐ Adam Lambert

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.
‐‐ Marc Anthony

Fame is an interesting phenomenon.
‐‐ Paulina Porizkova

Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
‐‐ John Corbett

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.
‐‐ Ryan Adams

Fame is as much about luck as it is about talent, perhaps more.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
‐‐ Hans Rosling

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.
‐‐ Charlie Sheen

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

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.
‐‐ Katy Perry

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.
‐‐ Mary MacLane

Fame is like a big piece of meringue - it's beautiful, and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
‐‐ Davy Crockett

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe