Francis Bacon Quotes

Fame means so little about somebody when you come right down to it.

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

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

Fame and success are very different things.

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Fame is morally neutral.

I always have to make it as clear as I possibly can that fame is 99.9 percent good.

Fame is an apparition. Fame is a side effect of success.

It's a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I don't think fame is that important to me.

Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

I never wanted fame.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.