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Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's. — William Hazlitt

You get 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14 minutes. The clock's ticking. — Tim Howard

I don't go to premieres. I attend film openings I'm in, and that's about it. Fame and celebrity doesn't matter to me. The longevity of my career does. — Eva Mendes

I'm not interested in fame and glory. It's just that I would like others to know what a happy dance this is. — Frankie Manning

Good daughters are fortunate lamps, brightening the family's name. Wicked daughters are firebrands, blackening the family's fame. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after-fame is oblivion. — Marcus Aurelius

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame. — Cate Blanchett

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose. — Robert Galbraith

Fame is O.K. I hate it, but it's O.K. I'm beginning to understand how I can be hidden. It's an attitude. — Romain Duris

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work. — Adam Clayton

The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

It's probably healthier to find fame later in life. — Bill Nighy

It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture. — Johnny Cash

Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. — John Dryden

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am ... — Jonathan Kellerman

You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself. — Marilyn Monroe

It's not all book signings and publicity photos, you know. You want fame, you have to be prepared for a long hard slog. — J.K. Rowling

I'm just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me 'cause I make YouTube videos - it's just crazy! — Phil Lester

The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat. — Fran Lebowitz

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power. — Joel Osteen

It's very important to hold on to what you want. In front of you is very easy fame and very easy money. — Douglas Booth

We cannot impress our children with the fame of God's name if we are not impressed with him ourselves. If — Tedd Tripp

I have enemies I've never met - that's fame. — Tallulah Bankhead

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity. — Brigham Young

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame. — Joy Bryant

There's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion — John Green

Anyone who tells you they got into rock'n'roll for reasons other than girls, fame and money is full of s***. — Gene Simmons

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. — Philip Massinger

I have a definition of success. For me, it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me. — Benjamin Zander

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully. — Spencer Pratt

Most of the people who are given these Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. — Tommy Ramone

A young hero is the world's greatest attraction. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have. — Lloyd Banks

To have people like my work, even if it's my old work, I can't ask for nothing nicer than that. — Henry Winkler

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success. — Ingrid Bergman

The thought of money and fame and all that is nice to have. But it's not what's really important. — Doyle Brunson

I could really care less about the TV and the fame, it's all about that lifetime achievement of becoming a world champion. — Jake Ellenberger

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

I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful. — Warwick Davis

I think my chances of getting into the Rock 'N' Roll Hall Of Fame are about as good as Milli Vanilli's. — Al Yankovic

Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame — Robert Mondavi

My fame? Truly I don't consider myself famous ... long way to go yet. But if anyone does ask for an autograph it's a wonderful feeling ... — Henry Cavill

No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn't mean sh** if it's not connected with love. — Adam Lambert

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination. — Mos Def

Really, I think of fame as distracting; it's something you have to get around. — Terry O'Quinn

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do. — Bruno Mars

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame. — William Cowper

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him.
"So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back. — James Patterson

I try not to focus on fame; I don't even really know what it means exactly because it's so fleeting. — Taylor Momsen

It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame) — Aretha Franklin

It's a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It's very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it. — Red Faber

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share. — James Maslow

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy ... there's something about winning a Super Bowl. — Terry Bradshaw

You always question people's intentions. That may be a combination of having money, having fame, and being a little older. — Matt LeBlanc

If I had to choose between baseball's Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship. — Jackie Robinson

It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity. — Criss Jami

It's all a popularity contest, which unfortunately often has more to do with good looks rather than actual talent. — Andrew James Pritchard

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again. — William, Saroyan

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister. — Kinky Friedman

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. — David Cassidy

Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school. — Flea

When desire's sold for freedom/and need exchanged for fame/those choices made in ignorance/turn to bloodstained dreams of shame. — Kim Harrison

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it's more subtle than that. — Becky Wicks

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind. — Bruce Sutter

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing. — Steve Perry

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill. — Kelsey Grammer

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. — Sophia Bush

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do. — J. J. Watt

Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling. — Nicole Kidman

That's what mild television fame is like: it's like walking through the world with your fly down. — Dave Holmes

It's relatively easy to act nice and normal in front of a crowd, or in public. The tricky part is doing it in private. — Robert Black

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential — Gordon Brown

Integrity of life is fame's best friend,
Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. — John Webster

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me. — Annie Lennox

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start ... for feeling good. — Leonard Cohen

It's rare that anybody gets in the Hall of Fame, and to be nominated is good enough for me. — Robin Zander

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

Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it's the downside of being a star player. — George Best

There are a lot of things about fame that are not conducive to being curious. It's been important for me to cloister myself off. — Jewel

Vell, Zaphod's just zis guy, you know? — Douglas Adams

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart. — Sammy Davis Jr.

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that. — Alanis Morissette

Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with. — Steve Kaufman

Fame is vanity's bait. — Toba Beta

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it. — Matt LeBlanc

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children. — Alan Jackson

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes. — Dante Alighieri

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. — Richard O'Brien

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is. — Gucci Mane

Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame — Tom Morello

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame. — Aaron Johnson

I've always been famous, it's just no one knew it yet. — Lady Gaga

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame. — Roger McGuinn

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence. — Clay Aiken

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full. — Iggy Pop

Poet's food is love and fame. — Percy Bysshe Shelley