300 Quotes on Famous

• I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, "Hi Dave!"

  Author: David Zucker

• Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.

  Author: Chuck Zito

• 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

• If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

  Author: Moon Zappa

• I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

  Author: Martin Yan

• Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

  Author: Robert Wyatt

• But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.

  Author: Sam Worthington

• There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.

  Author: Tom Wolfe

• 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

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

  Author: Ann Wilson

• I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

  Author: Bruce Willis

• The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

  Author: Charles Williams

• People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.

  Author: Mae Whitman

• Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.

  Author: Kim Weston

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

  Author: Kim Weston

• Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

  Author: Orson Welles

• Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

  Author: Lawrence Welk

• On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• I never thought about being famous.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

  Author: Damon Wayans

• 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

• In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

  Author: Andy Warhol

• 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

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

  Author: Rodger Ward

• 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

• I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.

  Author: Jerry Walker

• What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

  Author: Voltaire

• We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!

  Author: Alan Vega

• I'm as famous as I want to be.

  Author: Tracey Ullman

• I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

  Author: Clyde Tombaugh

• The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.

  Author: Justin Timberlake

• Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

  Author: James Thurber

• Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

  Author: George Thorogood

• In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

  Author: Bobby Thomson

• Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

  Author: Simeon Strunsky

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

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.

  Author: Sharon Stone

• I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.

  Author: Sting

• 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

• The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

  Author: Danielle Steel

• People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

  Author: Danielle Steel

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

  Author: Danielle Steel

• Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

  Author: Mickey Spillane

• The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

  Author: Britney Spears

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

  Author: Nicholas Sparks

• To be famous and broke is hard.

  Author: David Spade

• The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

  Author: Robert South

• 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

• The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

  Author: Susan Sontag

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

  Author: Brett Somers

• So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

  Author: Ed Smith

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

  Author: Tom Sizemore

• I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

  Author: Alicia Silverstone

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

  Author: Ron Silver

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

  Author: Jane Siberry

• 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

• Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Author: George Shaw

• At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

  Author: Ernest Seton

• Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

  Author: Junipero Serra

• 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

• They were all famous and fantastic fellows.

  Author: Peter Scott

• When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

  Author: Jill Scott

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

  Author: Izabella Scorupco

• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

  Author: Neil Schon

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

  Author: Vincent Schiavelli

• Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

  Author: Marilyn Savant

• 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

• I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer.

  Author: Lee Ryan

• HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.

  Author: Richard Russo

• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

  Author: Jean Rousseau

• I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

  Author: Valentino Rossi

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

  Author: Ludwig Rohe

• I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him.

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?

  Author: Chris Rock

• I actually don't feel famous.

  Author: Anwar Robinson

• I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.

  Author: Herb Ritts

• Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

  Author: Mary Retton

• 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 don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

  Author: Gabrielle Reece

• I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

  Author: Stephen Rea

• When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.

  Author: Katie Price

• It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from.

  Author: Sarah Polley

• For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

  Author: Pericles

• I want to be famous everywhere.

  Author: Luciano Pavarotti

• In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

  Author: Luciano Pavarotti

• Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better.

  Author: Scott Patterson

• We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

  Author: Robert Patrick

• I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

  Author: Christopher Parker

• For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

  Author: Jesse Owens

• 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

• Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

  Author: Bill O'Reilly

• The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

  Author: Graham Norton

• I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest.

  Author: Ruud Nistelrooy

• 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

• I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

  Author: Helmut Newton

• Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

  Author: Haywood Nelson

• 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

• All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.

  Author: Samantha Mumba

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

  Author: Jamie Muir

• The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.

  Author: Kate Moss

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  Author: Van Morrison

• Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

  Author: Van Morrison

• A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

  Author: Van Morrison

• Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

  Author: Robert Morgan

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

  Author: Dylan Moran

• I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

  Author: Sun Moon

• Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

  Author: Moliere

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

  Author: Matthew Modine

• 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'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

  Author: Radha Mitchell

• I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

  Author: Slobodan Milosevic

• I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

  Author: Moses Mendelssohn

• My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

  Author: Joel McHale

• The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

  Author: John McCain

• I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

  Author: Johnny Mathis

• Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

  Author: Johnny Mathis

• 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

• Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

  Author: Jose Marti

• We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

  Author: Stephen Malkmus

• There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.

  Author: Tobey Maguire

• I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

  Author: Paul Lynde

• I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!

  Author: Lyle Lovett

• Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  Author: Courtney Love

• If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine.

  Author: Shelley Long

• I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

  Author: Jeremy London

• I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

  Author: Alison Lohman

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

  Author: Seth Lloyd

• Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

  Author: Seth Lloyd

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

  Author: Laura Linney

• You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

  Author: Adriana Lima

• Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong.

  Author: Jet Li

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

  Author: Richard Lewis

• I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.

  Author: Juliette Lewis

• I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

  Author: Tony Levin

• 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

• You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

  Author: Jay Leno

• Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

  Author: Sean Lennon

• It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

  Author: Gyorgy Legeti

• George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

  Author: Alvin Lee

• Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off.

  Author: Jude Law

• I got the famous Oprah hug!

  Author: Taylor Lautner

• They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

  Author: Lillie Langtry

• Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!

  Author: Christine Lahti

• It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

  Author: Diane Kruger

• We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

  Author: Jiddu Krishnamurti

• I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.

  Author: Anna Kournikova

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

  Author: Alberto Korda

• My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

  Author: Shirley Knight

• 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 made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

  Author: Sally Kirkland

• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  Author: Laura Kightlinger

• The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  Author: Nancy Kerrigan

• These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

  Author: Catherine Keener

• The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

  Author: Casey Kasum

• My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

  Author: Wynonna Judd

• The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

  Author: Erica Jong

• It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

  Author: Marion Jones

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

  Author: Don Johnson

• Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.

  Author: Penn Jillette

• 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

• Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

  Author: William Hurt

• 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

• The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

  Author: Leigh Hunt

• 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 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

• We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave.

  Author: Katie Holmes

• You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

  Author: Anthony Holden

• I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy.

  Author: Nicky Hilton

• I can never really enjoy being famous.

  Author: Utada Hikaru

• People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

  Author: Cullen Hightower

• I don't like the idea of famous people.

  Author: Kristin Hersh

• When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

  Author: Katharine Hepburn

• You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.

  Author: Marilu Henner

• It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

  Author: Don Henley

• It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

  Author: Lillian Hellman

• I didn't get into skating to be famous.

  Author: Eric Heiden

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

  Author: Eric Heiden

• At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

  Author: Lafcadio Hearn

• 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

• I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25.

  Author: Ian Hart

• I just want to be rich and famous.

  Author: Ian Hart

• My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

  Author: Ian Hart

• You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

  Author: Gary Hart

• I wanted to be successful, not famous.

  Author: George Harrison

• There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

  Author: Geri Halliwell

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

  Author: Justin Guarini

• Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

  Author: Rupert Grint

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

  Author: Rachel Griffiths

• Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

  Author: Macy Gray

• I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

  Author: Kelsey Grammer

• I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

  Author: Lefty Gomez

• I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

  Author: Arthur Golden

• You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

  Author: Whoopi Goldberg

• 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 guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

  Author: Mickey Gilley

• I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

  Author: Vince Gill

• I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

  Author: Vince Gill

• I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

  Author: Barry Gibb

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

  Author: David Gest

• What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

  Author: Lady Gaga

• I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

  Author: David Friedman

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

  Author: Francis Francis I

• My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor.

  Author: Harrison Ford

• I was famous from birth.

  Author: Peter Fonda

• When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

  Author: Henry Flynt

• Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

  Author: Brett Favre

• That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.

  Author: Suzanne Farrell

• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Author: Richard Ernst

• I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

  Author: Enya

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

  Author: Eminem

• When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

  Author: Cass Elliot

• Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

  Author: Duke Ellington

• I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.

  Author: Danny Elfman

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

  Author: Anita Ekberg

• It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

  Author: Griffin Dunne

• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  Author: Fran Drescher

• Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

  Author: Maureen Dowd

• At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

  Author: Phil Donahue

• I will either be famous or infamous.

  Author: Otto Dix

• I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

  Author: Walt Disney

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

  Author: Ani DiFranco

• I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

  Author: Bruce Dickinson

• I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not.

  Author: Catherine Deneuve

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  Author: Gavin DeGraw

• Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

  Author: Cat Deeley

• I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

  Author: Bette Davis

• I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.

  Author: James D'arcy

• Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

  Author: Paula Danziger

• The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.

  Author: Rick Danko

• There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold.

  Author: Matt Damon

• I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

  Author: Matt Damon

• What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

  Author: Jean Damme

• I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell, I don't know why anyone would want to be famous. I can't imagine what need that would fill.

  Author: Jessica Cutler

• Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

  Author: John Cusack

• Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

  Author: Will Cuppy

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

  Author: Robert Crumb

• You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

  Author: Nikki Cox

• Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

  Author: Doug Coupland

• 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

• 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

• I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

  Author: Nat Cole

• I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.

  Author: Stephen Colbert

• One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

  Author: Nick Clooney

• The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

  Author: Julian Clary

• But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all.

  Author: Thomas Church

• I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating.

  Author: Charlotte Church

• Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

  Author: Ilka Chase

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

  Author: Ray Charles

• Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

  Author: Michael Castle

• Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

  Author: Michael Castle

• When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

  Author: James Carville

• Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

  Author: Helena Carter

• My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough.

  Author: Aaron Carter

• I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

  Author: Jon Carroll

• Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.

  Author: Tia Carrere

• 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

• 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

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

  Author: Bert Campaneris

• Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

  Author: Meg Cabot

• I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

  Author: Ellen Burstyn

• 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

• While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

  Author: Pat Brown

• In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

  Author: Norman Brown

• Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

  Author: Morgan Brittany

• No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

  Author: Edie Brickell

• In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

  Author: Andrew Bradley

• 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

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

  Author: Michael Bolton

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

  Author: Kurtis Blow

• Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

  Author: Paul Biya

• It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

  Author: Juliette Binoche

• Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.

  Author: Juliette Binoche

• Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• In Germany I am not so famous.

  Author: Hans Berger

• If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.

  Author: Bo Bennett

• There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

  Author: Bo Bennett

• 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

• Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

  Author: Annette Bening

• Be very clear as to what your dream is. Nowadays it is fairly certain that 90 percent of all actors really just want to be rich and famous as the solution to all that ails.

  Author: Dirk Benedict

• It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.

  Author: Robert Benchley

• I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.

  Author: Kristen Bell

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

  Author: David Beckham

• Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous.

  Author: Jean-Michel Basquiat

• They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

  Author: Luigi Barzini

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

  Author: Brigitte Bardot

• I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well.

  Author: Christine Baranski

• That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

  Author: Gordon Banks

• I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.

  Author: Christian Bale

• Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

  Author: Kevin Bacon

• Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.

  Author: Will Arnett

• You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

  Author: Joan Armatrading

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