Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

I don't think about my fame very much.
Calvin Klein

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.
Calvin Klein

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

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
Fran Lebowitz

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.
Angelina Jolie

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Benjamin Disraeli

I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Aeschylus

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.
Donatella Versace

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.
Heraclitus

Fame is a constant effort.
Jules Renard

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
Jack London

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri

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