Tom cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
~By David Beckham ~
Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine.
~By Kenneth Anger ~
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 ~
Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.
~By Bert Campaneris ~
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 ~
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
I was famous from birth.
~By Peter Fonda ~
In Germany I am not so famous.
~By Hans Berger ~
I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.
~By Enya ~
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 ~
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.
~By Will Cuppy ~
I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.
~By Jeremy London ~
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 ~
I will either be famous or infamous.
~By Otto Dix ~
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.
~By Scott Patterson ~
But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.
~By Nicole Sullivan ~
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
~By Ray Charles ~
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.
~By John Cusack ~
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.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
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 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.
~By Shaquille O'Neal ~
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 ~
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.
~By Jean-Michel Basquiat ~
The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships.
~By Kurtis Blow ~
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.'
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
~By Paul Biya ~
Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
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 ~
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 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.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
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 ~
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.
~By Edie Brickell ~
I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.
~By Jerry Jeff Walker ~
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 ~
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.
~By Lady Gaga ~
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.
~By Helena Bonham Carter ~
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.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
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 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 ~
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 ~
It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
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 ~
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.
~By Cass Elliot ~
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
~By Don Johnson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
~By Danielle Steel ~
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.
~By Sean Lennon ~
I was obsessed with being rich and famous.
~By Paul Lynde ~
I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.
~By Alison Lohman ~
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.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.
~By Adam Ant ~
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 ~
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
~By Cullen Hightower ~
I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!
~By Lyle Lovett ~
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. ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Phil Collen ~
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
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 ~
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 ~
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
~By Simeon Strunsky ~
The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
~By Margot Kidder ~
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.
~By Nick Clooney ~
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 as famous as I want to be.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.
~By Moon Unit Zappa ~
I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.
~By Sally Kirkland ~
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 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.
~By Alicia Silverstone ~
The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
~By Britney Spears ~
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 ~
To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
~By Albert Camus ~
I actually don't feel famous.
~By Anwar Robinson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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.
~By Kurt Masur ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
~By Marion Jones ~
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 ~
I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on Big Brother.
~By Sam Worthington ~
What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
~By Voltaire ~
Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.
~By Vincent Schiavelli ~
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.
~By Don Henley ~
Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
~By Cat Deeley ~
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 ~
People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.
~By Danielle Steel ~
The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
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 ~
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