Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.
It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
I never wanted fame.
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, and if fame follows suit, that's fine.
It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I really cherish. I don't like to be in the public light all that much. I don't crave the whole fame thing at all.
I love traveling. It not only opens my mind up, but it also allows me to use my fame in another way through humanitarian works and stuff, and being an influence around the world.
I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one... and stay healthy.
Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it.
It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.
Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.
Since my induction into the Sports Hall of Fame, I have wanted to have my No. 3 Chevy on exhibit for sports fans to see. I hope others will enjoy the car as much as I have.
Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.
I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.
I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.
As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.
I think you can become dependent on fame and be as known as you want to be, you know?
With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility - to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I'm lucky enough, then to inspire.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
I think fame can come and go.
When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it.
A lot of these reality-TV shows people go on, they come off, and nothing happens. You never hear from them again. Fifteen seconds of fame is not the name of the game. No matter how big you break, or how many people you break in front of, you still have to slowly build a fan base to have anything loyal and lasting from people.
I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.
How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.
Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
Being elected to the Hall of Fame is about your career pretty much and your impact on the game.
I don't even think about fame at all.
I've wanted recognition; I wanted success; I wanted appreciation; I love the perks of being in the movies. I love the fame that comes with it - but that's why I became an actor.
