Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

There is no advertisement as powerful as a positive reputation traveling fast.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

Being famous for being famous isn't our scene.

I only think that awards are important to everybody and if not that, a nomination serves as a recognition and a positive drive to do better work.

Fame is like being at a party and getting invited into the cool room even the VIPs can't get into, then the even cooler, more exclusive room after that. Eventually, you end up in a cubicle on your own, asking, 'Am I having fun?'

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come with being famous, but there's also confusion. It's important to make sure your feet stay on the ground.

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition.

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

Fame is the thirst of youth.

I have a fine level of recognition in the business and among the acting community now, so I consider myself one of the lucky ones. If I didn't think that, there would be something wrong with me. I'm grateful and thankful for what I've got.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting!

I was famous from birth.

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

The glamorous roles have given me name, fame, success and independence but at the same time this image has worked against me as well. I have got stereotyped.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, 'If you want to be recognized, you need to go out to a club.' Because we didn't have computers. We didn't have social media. We didn't even have cellphones. So you had to go out to be recognized.

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

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you're a successful comedian or actor, then you're a famous one. But it's not the driving force. It's a by-product.

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

I'm famous. That's my job.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

I make people famous.

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

The only real benefit of being famous is being recognized by head waiters and getting good tables at restaurants. The rest is part ego trip and part inconvenience.