Ato Essandoh Quotes

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

I want to be known for my work, that's most important.

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time.

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you're trying to be famous, your work usually suffers.

If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

My heart's desire is to be recognised in Nigeria.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.

It's such a human condition, whether you're a great track star or a great knitting person or you paint watercolors - someone knows who you are.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

I suppose because my work was so popular people didn't really look at it.