Quotes on Famous

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

Author: Alan Alda

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

Author: Louie Anderson

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Author: Brigitte Bardot

Tom cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.

Author: David Beckham

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Author: Alan Bennett

In Germany I am not so famous.

Author: Hans Berger

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.

Author: Kurtis Blow

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

Author: Michael Bolton

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

Author: Danny Bonaduce

He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

Author: Saffron Burrows

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

Author: Bert Campaneris

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

Author: Jim Capaldi

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Author: David Carradine

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Author: Ray Charles

The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

Author: Phil Collen

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Author: Francis Coppola

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Author: Robert Crumb

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

Author: Ani DiFranco

I will either be famous or infamous.

Author: Otto Dix

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

Author: Anita Ekberg

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.

Author: Eminem

I was famous from birth.

Author: Peter Fonda

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Author: Francis Francis I

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

Author: David Gest

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Author: Johann Goethe

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

Author: Lefty Gomez

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

Author: Rachel Griffiths

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

Author: Justin Guarini

I just want to be rich and famous.

Author: Ian Hart

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Author: Ronald Harwood

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

Author: Eric Heiden

I didn't get into skating to be famous.

Author: Eric Heiden

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Author: Anthony Hopkins

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

Author: Kin Hubbard

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

Author: Elizabeth Hurley

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Author: Guillermo Infante

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Author: Don Johnson

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

Author: Kevin Kline

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

Author: Alberto Korda

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

Author: Anna Kournikova

I got the famous Oprah hug!

Author: Taylor Lautner

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

Author: Lawrence Lessig

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

Author: Laura Linney

Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.

Author: Seth Lloyd

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

Author: Kurt Masur

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

Author: Radha Mitchell

Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises.

Author: Colin Mochrie

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

Author: Matthew Modine

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

Author: Dylan Moran

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

Author: Jamie Muir

Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews.

Author: Pola Negri

When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

Author: Stevie Nicks

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Author: Bill O'Reilly

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

Author: P. O'Rourke

I want to be famous everywhere.

Author: Luciano Pavarotti

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

Author: Martha Reeves

I actually don't feel famous.

Author: Anwar Robinson

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

Author: Ludwig Rohe

I'm famous. That's my job.

Author: Jerry Rubin

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

Author: Gabriela Sabatini

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

Author: Vincent Schiavelli

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

Author: Izabella Scorupco

They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

Author: Peter Scott

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

Author: William Scott

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood.

Author: Pauly Shore

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

Author: Jane Siberry

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

Author: Ron Silver

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

Author: Tom Sizemore

You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!

Author: Brett Somers

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

Author: Mira Sorvino

To be famous and broke is hard.

Author: David Spade

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

Author: Nicholas Sparks

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Author: Danielle Steel

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Author: Ben Stiller

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Author: Barbra Streisand

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Author: Simeon Strunsky

I'm as famous as I want to be.

Author: Tracey Ullman

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

Author: David Walliams

Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.

Author: Rodger Ward

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."

Author: Andy Warhol

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Author: Andy Warhol

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

Author: Andy Warhol

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

Author: Lew Wasserman

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Author: Lawrence Welk

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.

Author: Kim Weston

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Author: Ann Wilson

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.

Author: Edgar Winter

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

Author: Panayiotis Zavos