I've seen many of my contemporaries become superstars, and the way fame and fortune starts to really affect the way they treat other people, and I think it's ugly.
Siobhan Fahey

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
Christian Nestell Bovee

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
Rafael Palmeiro

I've done all this stuff because it's fun. It's never been about fame.
Elle Macpherson

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
Adam Clarke

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.
Steve Guttenberg

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
Thom Gunn

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Annette Funicello

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.
David Duchovny

Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
Billy Eckstine

I'd much rather see a world where, when you make some quirky comment on a blog or news story or you upload a video clip, instead of just a moment of fame for your pseudonym, you'll get 50 bucks. The first time that happens, you'll realise that you're a full-class citizen. You have the potential to make money from the system.
Jaron Lanier

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Luc de Clapiers

We never really felt a real level of respect. The fame was fantastic, but that wasn't that important to me, because for every million people that loved me I focused on the one that hated me.
Donnie Wahlberg

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.
Kim Novak

I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.
Steve Brown

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.
Tina Yothers

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.
Edie Brickell

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

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.
Scott Hamilton

My drum sticks are in the "Hall of Fame." I know that.
Jimmy Carl Black