Of course, they were other things too. Sometimes they were even everything all together, but not fame, which was rooted in delusion and lies, if not ambition. Also, fame was reductive. Everything that ended in fame and everything that issued from fam...
If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Common fame seldom lies.
Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.
The medium of response in America is fame; that's how a person that bounces a ball can make millions of dollars, and a school teacher with no fame makes $35,000.
If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.
Anonymity beats fame. One cannot undo fame.
All kinds of fame belong partly to others.
For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.
I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.
People confuse fame with validation or love. But fame is not the reward. The reward is getting fulfilment out of doing the thing you love.
Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water.
The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
I've been through this fame thing before, when the band was big in '80, '81.
