Richard Hamming Quotes

If you stay on the air for 18 years, people know you.

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

I've been in the business for so long that I don't sit home and look at my awards.

I firmly believe that without the fans, I wouldn't be where I am. I'm truly fortunate to be relevant for a very long time, and it's because of them wanting to see more of me.

Nothing is more common than to find men, whose works are now totally neglected, mentioned with praises by their contemporaries as the oracles of their age, and the legislators of science.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.

Every artists wants to be applauded

How dismal is progress without publicity.

Seven million people I turned on, and only one hundred thousand have come by to thank me.

I'd like ten more babies and ten more chihuahuas and a few Academy Awards. Meanwhile, I enjoy being a sex symbol and making people happy.

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

I never wanted to be famous or get any sort of recognition for my person or my personality; it has always been for my work. There's something that bothers me intrinsically about social media, but it's just expected of you now. It's almost part of your contract. But that's not what I'm selling. I don't want to sell anything.

Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

I didn't feel entitled to become a star. I didn't expect it.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized.

Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.

I think it's good to, especially when you start to get to achieve certain levels of success and start doing a lot of interviews and having a lot of reviews, it would be quite easy to get pretty full of yourself. I think it's an important thing to try and keep yourself in check and just be aware that popularity doesn't necessarily run in parallel to quality.

I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.

Whether a man is a legend or not is decided by history, not fortune tellers.