Dante Alighieri Quotes

Awards do get you 'that profile,' but then you have to do the rest of the work - it's not just a case of 'now you don't have to do anything.'

Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

Fame is something that is bestowed upon you because of success. Success is something you have to chase.

Sure, it does help you get into a room, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to deliver, and you have to be talented, because they're not going to hire me because my dad is David Cassidy, who was famous in the '70s.

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.

It's crazy so many people know my name now. But I really do deserve it because I have put in a lot of work and sacrifices.

This is something that everyone has to understand: you don't win anything on your reputation.

You've got to give someone like Cher a lot of credit. She's worked very hard to get where she is. I can't take that away from her.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world.

You never feel that you have fame. It's always in back of you.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

Fame is not like a jacket. You can't put it on and then take it off.

What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

Even after I got some recognition and success, I still had to work hard and prove myself.

I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do.

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

I just worked really, really hard to stay in people's faces, so it would be hard to forget about me. I'm just trying to stay popular and do the same thing over and over.

Anyone who does anything useful will not go unpaid.