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 ~
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
~By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ~
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.
~By Gabrielle Reece ~
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.
~By Katharine Hepburn ~
When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.
~By Edward Furlong ~
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 ~
A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
~By Michael Bolton ~
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 ~
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
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 ~
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 ~
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
~By Paul Biya ~
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 never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
~By Robert Caro ~
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
~By Nat King Cole ~
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
~By Vince Gill ~
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.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
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 ~
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 ~
We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
~By Robert Patrick ~
I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well.
~By Christine Baranski ~
Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
~By Tom Sizemore ~
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
~By Albert Camus ~
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.
~By Jet Li ~
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 ~
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
~By Orson Welles ~
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 ~
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 ~
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.
~By Francis I ~
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 ~
I got the famous Oprah hug!
~By Taylor Lautner ~
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
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 ~
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.
~By David Carradine ~
I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
~By Lyle Lovett ~
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
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 ~
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
~By Samantha Mumba ~
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
~By Alison Lohman ~
I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.
~By Lefty Gomez ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Gabriela Sabatini ~
Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.
~By Tia Carrere ~
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.
~By Katie Holmes ~
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
~By Bert Campaneris ~
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 ~
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 ~
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
~By Ilka Chase ~
When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.
~By Katie Price ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.
~By Silvia Colloca ~
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
~By Haruki Murakami ~
I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
~By Don Johnson ~
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.
~By Rick Danko ~
They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
~By Lillie Langtry ~
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 ~
In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.
~By Andy Warhol ~
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 ~
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 ~
I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
~By Matthew Modine ~
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 ~
If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.
~By Bo Bennett ~
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 ~
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 never thought about being famous.
~By Damon Wayans ~
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.
~By David Walliams ~
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly pertaining to the show. It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
~By Jack Osbourne ~
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.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
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 ~
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 ~
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Tom cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
~By David Beckham ~
Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us.
~By Louise Brown ~
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 ~
You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!
~By Brett Somers ~
I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
~By Julia Roberts ~
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
~By Britney Spears ~
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 ~
If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.
~By David Gest ~
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
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.
~By Moses Mendelssohn ~
You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.
~By Jay Leno ~
I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.
~By Jeremy London ~
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.
~By Norman O. Brown ~
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 ~
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
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 ~
Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.
~By Mary Lou Retton ~
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 ~
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.
~By George Thorogood ~
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