Here we have the best Famous Quotes from famous authors such as Harry Shearer, Taraji P. Henson, Ricky Gervais, Ben Stiller, Jenna Fischer. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.
Fame is an upshot of what I do. If you’re a successful comedian or actor, then you’re a famous one. But it’s not the driving force. It’s a by-product.
Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults.
It’s very difficult today for girls to become supermodels. There is a lot more competition, a lot of countries in the East have opened up so there are many more models than there were in the Nineties. Now they have to compete with famous actresses but also with, say, reality stars to be on the magazine covers.
I have never wanted to be famous, as such – fame is a by-product.
When famous people come up to you it’s a bit weird, but it’s an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.
There’s a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn’t be able to just dress up and look pretty.
I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.
I didn’t want to be famous, I just wanted to sing.
I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
I wanted to be a rich, famous rock-and-roll star in that order.
Some people don’t care why they are famous; they just want to be famous, and that makes my skin crawl a bit.
I’m famous for being a silky midfielder.
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.
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.’
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
I’ve had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors, but really any famous people.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
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.
You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
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.
Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom, it gets you less.
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
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.
It’s not like I’m the most famous person in the world.
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.
I don’t care about being famous.
One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. ‘Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you’re a clean comic on stage, you’ll become famous.’ And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.
I’m really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it’s not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who’ve taken the time to go and study fashion.
I’m not interested in being famous. I’m interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that’s wrestling, and that’s what I love.
I actually don’t feel famous.
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.
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
I think I’ll always be famous. I just hope I don’t become infamous.
As long as I don’t have to compromise my art, that’s the most important thing. It doesn’t matter if I’m famous or not, it’s all about the music.
I can’t advise any of the young ones, because I don’t know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything – there’s a real problem.
The whole ‘American Idol‘ way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I’d even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.
I didn’t set out to be famous; if I’d wanted that, I would have gone on ‘Big Brother.’
Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person, I didn’t really realize how famous I was.
The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don’t tell me jokes – I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction.
We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however rich you are, however famous you are, however glamorous you are, everyone has to live by the same rules.
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.
It’s not about being super famous. My first goal was to do what I’m passionate about – dance, hip hop, and R&B – but I also wanted to support my family and friends and create opportunities for me and people I believe in. It makes everything I do meaningful.
Sure, every young person dreams about being famous, but nobody wants to be famous – unless they’re Zsa Zsa Gabor – every single moment of every single day.
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.
When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don’t want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies – Monsanto is the most famous of them – control so many of the seeds we grow.
Temptation‘s something you have to deal with even if you’re not famous. It’s harder when you’re famous because it’s a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.
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.
Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.
Some of the things I’ve seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive – I’ve seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things… like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.
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.
A lot of people are like, ‘So you want to be famous.’ And I’m like, ‘No, I want to be good at my craft. I don’t care about fame, I don’t care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I’m set for my career right now.’
My name’s Jennifer Ellison and one day I’m going to be famous!
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.
I was famous from birth.
Music is in me. I don’t have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music’s not good they won’t hang around.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
I’ll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: ‘You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you’re famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.’
I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people’s songs, way back when, and that’s what I enjoy the most. And I’m a lazy bugger.
I love being famous – it’s phenomenal.
The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It’s not that they need the money, of course; it’s a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.
I don’t like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that’s the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don’t do a ton of it.
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.
It’s great – that’s the best part about being famous is that people want to get to know me. People come up to me and introduce themselves, and I make friends, and then I meet their friends. It seems like I have a very happy and comfortable social life, which is something I never had when I was younger.
Being famous is great, it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.
Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous – I always wanted to be a singer.
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
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.
By 1916, as Madam Walker herself was developing more assertive views on race, she was becoming eager to assume her place alongside Harlem‘s famous, influential and intriguing residents.
I always loved working as an actress, but I didn’t understand why I couldn’t just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.
Sweden is famous for many things – but not fashion.
People think Selena and The Weeknd are dating for publicity, and that’s not how things works. These are real human beings. They don’t just date to get more famous. They’re already the most famous artists!
I don’t need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.
I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
I’m sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there’s a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
It’s every teenager’s dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.
I’m not just a rapper; I’m an intelligent young man. But being able to give my mother everything she’s ever wanted, I could care less about being famous or the money; that’s my dream. That’s all that matters to me.
I don’t know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.
I really feel like it’s a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
How does it feel? Really, I don’t know because I never try to feel more or less than any player in Leverkusen or Mexico. I don’t feel like I’m more famous than other players; I’m just one more footballer who wants to achieve their dreams and to try to help their team as much as they can to do that.
It doesn’t matter if they’re famous or not – I just want to meet other creative people who can maybe bring something different to the studio than what I have. I think that’s the most important thing for me.
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
There’s the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He’s supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you’ve been recording and then say, ‘Guys, I don’t hear any singles.’ And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
Being rich and famous isn’t all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.
Going to New York to do whatever – show business – it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn’t scared.
I can’t see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.
Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they’ve been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them.
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.
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.
My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
My hair was famous before I was.
I became famous almost before I had a craft.
I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn’t have any time to work things out. It’s been pretty scary at times.
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.
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.
There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.
Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.
When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me.
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
Once in a while, I remember that I am famous.
There’s such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
I didn’t want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
Before I was even famous, I was famous on Facebook.
There’s the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don’t go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn’t been a theoretical exercise. It’s been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we’ve learned an awful lot from.
There is this power that comes with being famous.
Once you’re famous you can’t go back.
Of course there have been times I regretted being the kid in ‘E.T.’ My world went completely crazy. I was that stupid kind of famous, where you can’t go anywhere.
I was never famous as a kid. That’s the biggest difference between me and any other kid actor is that I wasn’t famous as a kid.
For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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.
I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
I’m actually a very private person. Sometimes I’m in denial that I’m really famous.
The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
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.
For now I’m just enjoying being a mom. I don’t want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
‘Howard the Duck!’ That’s a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I’ve had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people… That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it’s kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it’s kind of a poster child for flops.
Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I’ve seen again and again.
Extrinsic motivations are like, ‘I wanna get rich, I wanna be famous.’… Even missionary ones like, ‘I wanna change the world with this idea.’… That’s an extrinsic motivation. And when things are hard, you’re going to be like, oh why am I doing this?
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
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.
Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.
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.
I certainly don’t think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it’s even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
To be famous and broke is hard.
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
I’m really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
I’d probably be famous now if I wasn’t such a good waitress.
A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of ‘success.’ Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector?
I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.
Don’t worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.
When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.
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.
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.
If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it’s because they have something, something special.
It’s weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It’s a part of the business that grosses me out. I’m always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they’re also famous, and they can’t live their life.
I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you’re famous… and it’s not. You just buy more stuff.
I usually live an extremely normal life, since I live in the countryside. Even when people call me ‘famous’ and such, I can’t really fathom it, even now.
When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I’m the same guy I’ve always been.
It’s easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That’s why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class.
Being famous hasn’t changed my perception of myself – I’ve just grown up.
OK, so I’m not famous for the right reasons.
I never pursued being ‘famous.’
When I’m living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it’s a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
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.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as ‘John Huston’s daughter‘ that I couldn’t think of myself as anyone else.
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.
If you play a real character who’s famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
The day I say I’m famous is the day I sound like a fanny.
I can do whatever I want – I’m rich, I’m famous, and I’m bigger than you.
I don’t really think reviewing music is something you’re going to get famous doing overnight.
I don’t have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
I wanted to go hide. I wasn’t looking to be more famous, I’m famous enough.
I wasn’t trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn’t the first thing I wanted.
There were some great tunes played between ’67 and ’73. The Beatles were everywhere in those days, the most famous people in the world. You couldn’t avoid them if you wanted. Not that I did.
I’m not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.
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.
I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident – it doesn’t matter to me. I think there’s a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.
I’m busier than ever and it’s led to new opportunities. But I’ve never worried about being rich or famous – for me, it’s all about the dancing.
An actor isn’t someone who is voted in by the people, but just someone who is famous. I don’t think we need to be perfect and take responsibility for our actions, but since there are young people who look at us and follow us, I don’t think we can just say that we have no responsibilities, either.
I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn’t it? That’s the place where your dreams will come true. It’s an act of faith now; they think that’s going to sort things out.
I’ve only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.
I don’t feel famous.
I’m as famous as I want to be.
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.
To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.
Ain’t nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say that.
Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
I love meeting famous people. I’m even happy just looking at them.
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.
Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who’s been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.
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.
People just assume that if you’re famous, you’re in Hollywood.
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.
I don’t know about this thing – being famous. I haven’t figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.
There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.
And I want to be able to – you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.
If you’re lucky enough to be famous, then it’s great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
I’ve learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.
It’s always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.
Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There’s a lot of things that come with fame – it’s what people in the limelight have to do.
No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.
English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
My family’s lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.
I will either be famous or infamous.
I’m already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You’re in a vacuum if you don’t have a certain amount of fame.
Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
I’m right on the edge of getting another movie. It’s between me and a famous person. The studio said they’re thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, ‘That’s great! Because I have one!’
Celebrity culture, it’s everywhere, isn’t it? It’s reality TV, Big Brother. I didn’t become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn’t want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?
I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way.
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.
When I did stand-up at U.C.B., and I had a blog for a couple of years that started my writing career, ‘Totally Confident and Completely Insecure,’ it was the same kind of self-deprecating humor and stories about being out in L.A. and being treated like a loser at a hair salon because you are not famous.
I can never really enjoy being famous.
If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
But I didn’t ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn’t even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don’t have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn’t handle it.
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.
I love being famous. It’s almost like being white.
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!
There’s some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
I didn’t get rich and famous, but I do what I love.
My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; we’ve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.
I’m the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.
It’s not normal to meet somebody and then they become wildly famous or they become wildly rich or all these things.
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.
Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It’s all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.
If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.
It’s more important for me to feel content than to be famous.
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.
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
I thought I’d be famous for being cute.
The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
I have to say, you know, I’ve seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want – have their priorities change and want different things.
I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.
There’s more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you’re being a character.
I am not a famous person at home – I’m just a guy here. I’m a father, I’m a companion, I’m a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself – I am just a guy.
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
I don’t think it’s anything you ever get used to… for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word ‘famous’ or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable… if you get used to it, then something must be wrong.
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
I’m glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.
I’ve always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.
I just don’t feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
I’ve been very, very lucky in my career, in my life – from day one. When aspiring directors say, ‘What’s your advice?’ first I say, ‘Be born the son of a famous director. It’s invaluable.’
‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North‘ is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689.
I hope this doesn’t sound pompous but I don’t think of myself as famous, whatever fame I’ve got has come through what I’ve done and associations of things I’ve done.
Try this experiment: Pick a famous movie – ‘Casablanca,’ say – and summarize the plot in one sentence. Is that plot you just described the thing you remember most about it? Doubtful. Narrative is a necessary cement, but it disappears from memory.
This business of fame – when people ask me what it was like growing up in this famous family, I say, ‘When you take it seriously you’re in a lot of trouble.’
I kept saying that I’d never live in L.A., and I didn’t think I would. But that’s where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you’re famous, its hard to live in a small town.
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
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.
I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.
I don’t feel I was ever a ‘famous’ child actor. I was just a working actor who happened to be a kid. I was never really in a hit show until I was a teenager with West Wing playing First Daughter Zoey Bartlet. In a way, that was my saving grace – not being a star on a hit show. It kept me working and kept me grounded.
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.
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.
Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn’t a famous bisexual equivalent – it’s a lot rarer.
Frost was no match for Nixon – far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Frost, putting questions to – Richard Nixon!
I didn’t want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
You know, I’m a television personality. It’s not like I’m a famous hooker or something!
