I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.
There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.
I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
The National is about however long it takes to run that race - eight minutes of fame - but champion jockey is about racing 365 days a year. I actually wouldn't swap any of my winners for the National.
Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
Most of my friends are not actors. Most people have an idea of what an actor's life is, and it's pure glamour and excitement: it's easy and free and everyone loves you. But with a certain level of fame, there's a real level of paranoia and depression that comes with what you do, that nobody talks about.
I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.
Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care.
There is no schooling for fame and success. You learn as you walk.
There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's everything you want. Not just the fame but what it represents, meaning work, meaning opportunity. And then you get there, and it's shocking how immediately you become enveloped in this world that is incredibly restricting.
I want to poke holes in the erroneous beliefs about what fame provides. It won't raise your self-esteem, it won't create profound connection, it's not going to heal your childhood traumas, it's only going to amplify them. You're going to be subject to a lot of criticism and praise, both of which are violent in their own ways.
You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.
I don't want to do things because it will please other people. I'm not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can't plan these things.
I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.
You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.
Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.
I think fame is hard in any capacity. It's so fleeting; it's not anything that you can really grab.
I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.
When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don't have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.
There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.
I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'
It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.
I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'
I honestly don't think I sought fame. It wasn't something I courted or wanted, particularly.
To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
