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.
~By Kate Moss ~
I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
~By Lyle Lovett ~
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.
~By Harrison Ford ~
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.
~By Diane Kruger ~
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.
~By Junipero Serra ~
They were all famous and fantastic fellows.
~By Peter Scott ~
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.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
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!"
~By David Zucker ~
I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
~By Ellen Burstyn ~
Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
~By Kim Weston ~
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
~By Britney Spears ~
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.
~By Stephen Malkmus ~
I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.
~By Jane Siberry ~
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
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.
~By William Scott ~
I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
~By Julia Sweeney ~
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
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.'
~By Francis Ford Coppola ~
I got the famous Oprah hug!
~By Taylor Lautner ~
You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
~By Adriana Lima ~
It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
~By Marion Jones ~
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.
~By Slobodan Milosevic ~
Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.
~By Tony Curtis ~
When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
~By Charlene Tilton ~
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
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.
~By Jean Claude Van Damme ~
I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.
~By David McCallum ~
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
~By Clive Anderson ~
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.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
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.
~By Shirley Knight ~
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
~By Don Johnson ~
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
~By Kate Adie ~
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.
~By Joel McHale ~
I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.
~By James Woods ~
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?
~By Henry Flynt ~
I never thought about being famous.
~By Damon Wayans ~
There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.
~By Sharon Stone ~
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
~By Anita Ekberg ~
Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
~By Laura Linney ~
I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.
~By Ann Wilson ~
I'm as famous as I want to be.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
~By Paul Lynde ~
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.
~By Graham Norton ~
I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.
~By Laura Kightlinger ~
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
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.
~By Christopher Parker ~
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
~By Michael Bolton ~
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.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
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.
~By Anthony Holden ~
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
~By Phil Donahue ~
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.
~By Lee Ryan ~
I can never really enjoy being famous.
~By Utada Hikaru ~
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.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
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.
~By Louie Anderson ~
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
~By Nikki Cox ~
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.
~By Catherine Keener ~
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!
~By Christine Lahti ~
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.
~By Alvin Lee ~
When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.
~By Katie Price ~
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.
~By Andrew Coyle Bradley ~
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
~By Barbra Streisand ~
Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
~By Fran Drescher ~
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
~By Simeon Strunsky ~
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.
~By Ian Hart ~
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.
~By Jon Carroll ~
I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.
~By Alberto Korda ~
In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.
~By Neil Schon ~
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.
~By Bruce Willis ~
I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
~By Richard Lewis ~
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.
~By Moliere ~
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.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!
~By Jennifer Ellison ~
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.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
~By Paula Danziger ~
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.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
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 David Friedman ~
Tom cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
~By David Beckham ~
And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
~By Damon Wayans ~
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.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
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.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
~By Francis I ~
It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.
~By Ron Silver ~
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.
~By Van Morrison ~
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.
~By Gyorgy Legeti ~
I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
~By Jerry Jeff Walker ~
It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
~By Alan Alda ~
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.
~By Sarah Polley ~
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
~By Andy Warhol ~
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.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
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.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
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.
~By Matt Damon ~
I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler.
~By Jeremy Bulloch ~
I will either be famous or infamous.
~By Otto Dix ~
I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
~By Matthew Modine ~
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.
~By Ian Hart ~
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.
~By Sun Myung Moon ~
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
~By O. J. Simpson ~
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