Fame Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Men, Fancy, Drawbacks

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• Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.

  Lysander Spooner

  Passion, Men, Justice

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Inspiration, Artist, Rocks

  "PAUL STANLEY Slams JANN WENNER For KISS 'Rock Hall' Snub". www.blabbermouth.net. May 20, 2013.

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• The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

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• I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

  Cat Stevens

  Teenager, Media, Names

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• There is this power that comes with being famous.

  Rod Stewart

  Being Famous

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• I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

  Sting

  Bigs

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• At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

  Sharon Stone

  Scary, Going Away, Firsts

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• I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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• I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

  Emma Thompson

  Mean, Two, Fields

  "Hugh Laurie". Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  James Thurber

  Witty, Stupid, Trying

  Letter to Malcolm Cowley on March 11, 1954. "Collecting Himself". Book by James Thurber, 1989.

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• I think fame can come and go.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Thinking, Comes And Goes

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• I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Thinking, Curiosity, Driving

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• I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.

  Shania Twain

  Children, Thinking, Perspective

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Fool, Broke

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• I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Ideas, Would Be, Pay

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• I wasn't ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on 'Oprah.' It took me over, and I wasn't ready.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Impact, People, Saws

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• Fame is useful in certain ways, because it helps you get more roles.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Roles, Way, Helping

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• Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal things. It probably wasn't advisable to go to college in America and room with a complete stranger. And it probably wasn't wise to share a bathroom with eight other people in a coed dorm. Looking back, that was crazy.

  Emma Watson

  Wise, Crazy, College

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• I've spent a lot of time in tiny venues in the way that I got my record deal and got my name out there just performing live. I was literally performing my songs in all kinds of different ways with different guitarists, and I didn't have an album up online or anything. It's been a lot of work; it definitely hasn't been a sudden explosion into fame.

  Florence Welch

  Song, Names, Different

  "Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine: An EW Q&a". Interview with Leah Greenblatt, ew.com. September 13, 2010.

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• Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Wisdom, Ambition, Virtue

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• It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.

  Robbie Williams

  Happens

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• Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Grief, America

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• Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Eulogy, Has Beens, Mortals

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Children, Years, Europe

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

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