I probably have become more infamous from two misdemeanors than probably anyone I could think of.
~By Paul Reubens ~
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.
~By Pat Brown ~
I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous.
~By Christian Bale ~
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 ~
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
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.
~By January Jones ~
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 do not like being famous. I like being normal.
~By Vince Gill ~
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.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.
~By Rupert Grint ~
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.
~By Pauly Shore ~
I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.
~By Jane Siberry ~
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.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
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.
~By Jim Capaldi ~
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
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.
~By Aaron Carter ~
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.
~By Kristen Bell ~
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.
~By Ernest Thompson Seton ~
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 ~
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
~By Michael Bolton ~
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.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
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.
~By Van Morrison ~
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 had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
Indy makes the race driver. You become famous when you come here.
~By Rodger Ward ~
Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.
~By Meg Cabot ~
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice, and were indulged not only with impunity, but authorized by the sanction of their laws.
~By David Brainerd ~
King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.
~By Jamie Muir ~
I actually don't feel famous.
~By Anwar Robinson ~
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
~By Simeon Strunsky ~
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous.
~By Anna Kournikova ~
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.
~By Mickey Gilley ~
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.
~By Penn Jillette ~
Jodie Foster may continue to outwardly ignore me for the rest of my life, but I have made her one of the most famous actresses in the world.
~By John W. Hinckley, Jr. ~
When we had the infamous mealtime scenes, food fights would inevitably develop.
~By Charlene Tilton ~
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
~By Lady Gaga ~
I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
~By George Matthew Adams ~
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.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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.
~By Will Arnett ~
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!
~By Bruce Dickinson ~
You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.
~By Adriana Lima ~
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
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.
~By Cat Stevens ~
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 ~
Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.
~By Tia Carrere ~
Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.
~By Duke Ellington ~
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
~By Norman Cousins ~
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.
~By Griffin Dunne ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
~By Robert Crumb ~
I think in the end, when you're famous, people like to narrow you down to a few personality traits. I think I've just become this ambitious, say-whatever's-on-her-mind, intimidating person. And that's part of my personality, but it's certainly not anywhere near the whole thing.
~By Madonna Ciccone ~
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.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
~By Nat King Cole ~
I want to be famous everywhere.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
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 ~
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
~By David Gest ~
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 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 ~
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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.
~By Mira Sorvino ~
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.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
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.
~By Bobby Thomson ~
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.
~By John McCain ~
And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
~By Meg Whitman ~
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
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.
~By Tobey Maguire ~
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 ~
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 ~
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
~By Seth Lloyd ~
The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
~By Julian Clary ~
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
~By Paul Biya ~
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.
~By Brett Favre ~
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
~By Albert Camus ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
~By Lyle Lovett ~
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.
~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
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.
~By Danny Bonaduce ~
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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.
~By Gordon Banks ~
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 ~
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'm as famous as I want to be.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.
~By Sam Worthington ~
You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
~By Gary Hart ~
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.
~By Helmut Newton ~
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.
~By Casey Kasum ~
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~By Voltaire ~
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'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."
~By Andy Warhol ~
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.
~By Panayiotis Zavos ~
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.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
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 ~
My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
~By Andy Warhol ~
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