John Dryden Quotes

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.

99.9% of the time, the people we see worked for it. People like Morgan Freeman and Harry Connick, Jr. work every day to continue the status that they have.

My goal was never to be famous, but to be a consistently working actor.

I try to be somewhat wary of fame, but I'm not wary of success.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

Everyone's like, 'overnight sensation.' It's not overnight. It's years of hard work.

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

Fame isn't happiness, but success and being respected in your craft is worth fighting for. You've got to work hard to be noticed.

Life will go on. I suppose the aura of the Nobel is such that my life will change, but I don't think I'm going to let it change much. You understand, I'm used to a quiet life.

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

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 don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

You have to win something for people to think about you.

There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

I wanted to make a name for myself.

Over time, quality work will lead to an audience for your work.

I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.

Nothing recedes like success.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such.

If I have done any honorable exploit, that is my monument; but if I have done none, all your statues will signify nothing.

Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.