Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb Colton

I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
Trevor Dunn

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

Fame and success are very different things.
Enya

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.
Olivier Martinez

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Clive James

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

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

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

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
William Hazlitt

I don't want to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't think owners should be.
George Steinbrenner

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

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

It's just nice to work hard and be rewarded, which is having lots of people watch. And the icing on the cake is for me is to be able to walk around with pride, feeling that the product you put out is worthy of being watched. But honestly, it's not a big deal. I don't put too much stock in fame or celebrity anyway. I don't put it in the 'important' box.
Christopher Meloni

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

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.
Jerry B. Jenkins

A lot of celebrities, especially when you're talking about the really big ones, live in what I call the fame bubble. Nobody ever says no to them or challenges them or even teases them.
Kathy Griffin

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

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.
Conan O'Brien

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
Gene Tierney