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I don't think I realized that the cost of fame is that it's open season on every moment of your life.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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.

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created.

Everyone in showbiz is driven by ego, so how do you go from having loads of fame to working at 7-11? You can't do it!

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

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 have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.