Top 1200 Money And Fame Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

My integrity means more to me than any fame or money. When I say something, I want people to take it to the bank that I mean it and believe in it.

It was never my fame - it was his fame. I was Clint's girl. I only stood to lose professionally.

If during creative processes the desire for money and fame comes before passion and joy, the chances for a big hit decrease considerably, at least in my experience.

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

I thought TV fame was hip... well, that was because I hadn't experienced rock star fame yet.

I had it all - money, women, fame, cars, yachts, everything a man could want - but it didn't give my life meaning.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

If there was no fame involved and very minimal money - which is the case for most actors - I'd still be doing it. If I wasn't good enough to be a professional, I'd be an amateur actor.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.

I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.

Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.

I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.

It was tough. We went right from being teenagers to musical superstars with money and fame and attention. All of us had a hard time adjusting to it, especially me.

G-Dragonhe is very romantic. I’m his roommate so I see everything. He’s seriously romantic. If he dates someone he makes a song for them. One time he asked me how the song was. And I said oh my god if this was released in Korea there’d be a huge deal and it would make so much money. But… since it’s for the woman he loves it’s only for her and gives up that money/fame from that song.

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

My show 'Fame: Not the Musical' is about the fact that fame is seen in two ways in our culture: either as a glittering bauble we desperately covet, or as a narrative of tragedy and despair. My own experience of fame is a third, mundane way, which often involves being mistaken for someone else - Ian Broudie from the Lightning Seeds, or Steve Wright.

I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

Never work just for money. Money alone won't save your soul or build a decent family life or help you sleep at night. We're the richest nation on Earth, with the highest number of imprisoned people in the world. Our drug addictions and child poverty are among the highest in the industrialized world. So don't ever confuse wealth or fame with character.

A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn't.

I didn't start driving race cars because of the fame or the money, but the most rewarding factor is being complimented on what you do, and your fans are always the first to do that.

I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

Fame, in Trumpian fashion, is war. You are expected to defend your fame; many people want to take it from you.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.

It's funny how you realize what's important, and it's not fame and money, even though it can be really nice. It's happiness and whatever it takes to make you feel happy.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong reasons - for money, or for fame.

The fame and the fame-hungry world we live in does it all for you. Women are lining up on your Instagram account to meet you.

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

We publish only to satisfy out craving for fame; there's no other motive except the even baser one of making money.

A footballer can have even more problems than other people. Sometimes money and fame can become a problem, too.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

I think a lot of people confuse what we do with fame or wanting fame... which is not necessarily true.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

You can have all the fame and all the money, but the important thing is the person. All the rest can help, but it isn't important.

I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.

Nothing is worth your integrity. Not success, not money, not fame. Nothing.

My dream is to see athletes also getting the same recognition, fame, success and money as cricketers, footballers and hockey players get in India.

I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister.

You can't win fame; you have to earn it. If you're given fame without working for it, then you're not going to be ready for it.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.

We understand that as public figures, we are a target for people who have nothing to lose in their quest for fame and easy money, ... preposterous, slanderous and defamatory lies.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.