Oriana Fallaci Quotes

When your name is on the marquee, you either get the glory or you get the hits.

Based on history the expectations are simply the highest, it kind of could become a burden for you or it could be something that you are really proud of, you know so I take the second one.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

People who have achieved a public voice find it a mixed bag.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

Fame is very corrosive and you have to guard very strictly against it.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.'

Nothing recedes like success.

If kids remember me as a national hero, why would I mind? In fact, I'd give my right arm for that.

You don't want to lose the nostalgia of being a superstar.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The last thing I want is to walk into my house after a long day and see all the Grammys and awards. It would make me feel weird.

I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

The way you can be careful of the catastrophe that success can bring is by paying attention to something else that comes along with success - responsibility.

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

The bigger you get, the more pressure you have to deal with.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.