George Savile Quotes

I don't think fame is that important to me.

I never wanted fame.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs.

Fame is a by-product which you have to deal with in a sensible way. To believe that it is anything more significant than that is deeply self-deceptive.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me then. My barefoot rank is better.

Not to rag on myself, but when people say, 'What does it feel like to be an icon?' I'm like, 'My dog does not think I'm an icon, my cat does not think I am an icon, my cousin does not think I am an icon.' I have a really lovely group of friends, and I just don't think about it.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Nobody sane wants just to be famous.

Fame obviously has become a premium in everybody's life. Everybody thinks they deserve it, everybody thinks they want it and most people really don't enjoy it once they get it.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

Fame is not a natural condition for human beings.

I don't think I ever wanted fame.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

He [Marquis de Lafayette] has a canine appetite for popularity and fame.

Fame is a very unnatural human condition.

I do not want fame.

I don't care about being famous.

Fame just ain't a natural situation. But I shouldn't have worried because everyone thought I was a bit famous even before I'd done anything; people just assumed I was famous.

I don't need the fame or power.

Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.

It's cool to be recognized, but it's not something that I was seeking or sought after. I never wanted to be famous.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

Fame is a mind - a way of thinking about things. It's all in your mind.

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

Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.