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“Fame has always been a downside to acting for me. It gives me the creeps.”

Giving Acting Fame Give Me Creeps

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam; Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]”

Men Giving Names He Man Fame Give Me

Author:Martial

“People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.' It's a goddamn shame.”

People Knows Want Giving Stills Done Play Asks Opportunity Fame Give Me Shame Ask Me Halls Stamps Hall Of Fame

Author:Rickey Henderson

“Society, magazines, posters, music videos, investment bankers. A lot of times, in my past anyway, looking within wasn't overly encouraged. Pretty much everybody proclaimed that fame would give me power and fortune.”

Giving Past Fame Give Me Fortune Investment Video Magazines Bankers My Past Posters

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Give me hunger, pain and want, Shut me out with shame and failure From your doors of gold and fame, Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger! But leave me a little love.”

Want Giving Littles Pain Doors Fame Gold Give Me Shame Hunger Leaving Me Little Love

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.”

Giving Fame Give Me Fairness Paraphrase

Author:Jon Krakauer

“Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.”

Ifs Giving Heart Soul Dream Light Moving Goal Prayer Liberty Laughing Bears Praying Fame And Love Give Me Endure Lips Riches Lust Esteem Life And Death Scorn I Pray

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.”

People Ifs Men Giving Art Ends Might Beautiful Young Desire Dies Girl One Thing Fame Give Me Envy Saved Impression Young Man Representatives Abstraction Reproach Beautiful Girl

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“It makes me feel like working non-stop: at least, on sets, the level of security gives me a bit of privacy. It's a relief.”

Giving Feels Bits Levels Security Fame Give Me Relief Privacy Non Stop

Author:Robert Pattinson