You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money.
Wilhelm Steinitz

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

I wanted to be an actress. In college I was a serious feminist and very political. I was determined to get one thing out of my career and that was respect. I didn't want money. I didn't care about fame.
Christine Lahti

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

My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions.
Emma Watson

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

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

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

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

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.
J. M. Coetzee

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

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.
Michael Hutchence

The idea was to come up with a song that had the same kind of feeling and inspiration as Fame and yet be different from Fame. I certainly didn't want to do Fame II.
Irene Cara

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
Edward Young

It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.
Dirk Benedict

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
Robert Mapplethorpe

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