I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
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.
If I lose touch with that... the reason why I act... then I'll leave it all. I don't do it for fame or money.
I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.
All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.
I think fame is such a scary thing, and it's something I can never understand. It's terrifying, but it's the only way I get to do what I love every day, you know?
Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.
One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up for missing out on my childhood. But the idea of money - putting a price on your childhood - is ridiculous. You will never get those years back and you can't put a price on them.
I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.
It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him than anything else.
Fame is an interesting phenomenon.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you - and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.
All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
Fame is like icin' on the cake.
Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.
I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
It's not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren't the purpose of all this. No actor's going to say, 'I don't want to be famous.' But the main purpose for doing what I'm doing is the passion in the work.
I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.
