Pursuit of Fame Quotes

The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.

Some guy workin' at Home Depot, he wants to f-k just as many women as a celebrity. But he can't do it, because whores don't care about lumber.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

I've been striving for attention my whole life. Now I have it.

Nas has always been uncomfortable with being famous and accessible. Nas makes music because he loves music, not because he wants the trappings of music, such as fame.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it.

The tale of the actor struggling to make it is oft-told for a reason.

For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

If you love money and you want to be creative, you cannot become creative. The very ambition for money is going to destroy your creativity. If you want fame, then forget about creativity. Fame comes easier if you are destructive.

What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself.

I play a girl called Patti in the film 'Patti Cake$,' and she's a girl from New Jersey, and she dreams of being a famous rapper.

I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.

I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.

Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.

When I started, there was something almost romantic about the notion of paparazzi. I mean, it wasn't. They were still chasing you down the road. But that guy had to put film in his camera and work out whether it was worth pressing the button to take the shot, otherwise he's got to stop and change the film. So it was like this age of innocence.

But the thing is, I was never looking at a strategic way of gaining fame. That's not why I'm doing this.

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it.

The reality is that some Kapoors did reach the marquee; others did not.

Most actors and actresses are consumed by careers and getting ahead.

America has a genius for the encouragement of fame.

I've wanted to come to the U.S. since I was 8 years old. Every single year, my mom and I watched the Oscars. I always told her, 'I want to do that when I grow up. I want to tell stories; I want to be an actor and director.'