Fame overcomes everything.
Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.
Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
There are a lot of perks that come with fame, and with every positive there's a negative, and then it all kind of balances out.
We start 2016 with a command: that the subject of Pete Rose and the Hall of Fame is over, finis, kaput forever and ever. As sure as we will no longer discuss whether Lindsey Graham or George Pataki can be president.
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.
It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.
I want that Sinatra type of fame. It's not the 'Whoever's the hot pop star at the moment' fame. It's the 'Walk into a room and everybody just kind of politely nods their heads' fame. Sinatra fame.
What the hell is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what does it do besides talk about itself and sell postcards?
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
I don't like fame; I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me.
I don't like fame, I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. This is what I do, so I just have to find a way of being comfortable with it.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
It's weird to think about being introduced as 'Hall of Fame members Rascal Flatts.'
Fame was a mixed blessing for me because I thought I could be as big as I wanted to be, and then I realized that I couldn't because of the racist element in the record business.
I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.
I didn't handle fame very well at first. I got a little resentful.
