Famous Quotes

 

Glory is fleeting       but obscurity is forever.|Napoleon Bonaparte

Fame is the thirst of youth.|Lord Byron

We all want to be famous people   and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.|Jiddu Krishnamurti

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.|Andy Warhol

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.|Al Pacino

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.|Daniel J. Boorstin

Avoid popularity; it has many snares        and no real benefit.|William Penn

I’m an instant star. Just add water and stir.|David Bowie

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.|Pericles

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me.|Cary Grant

I wanted to be successful    not famous.|George Harrison

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.|Justin Timberlake

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.|Arthur Schopenhauer

The strangest part about being famous is you don’t get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.|Kristen Stewart

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities           or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.|Walt Disney

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.|Voltaire

I am beautiful           famous and gorgeous.|Anna Kournikova

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.|Adam Sandler

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.|Ricky Gervais

I’m more interested in being good than being famous.|Annie Leibovitz

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.|Duke Ellington

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?|Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fame is like caviar   you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.|Marilyn Monroe

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that       if you bore people   they think it’s their fault.|Henry Kissinger

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.|Fran Lebowitz

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.|J. K. Rowling

You’re not famous until my mother has heard of you.|Jay Leno

I’d rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.|Ani DiFranco

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.|Al Goldstein

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I’m not interested in being the cheerleader. I’m not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She’s the cheerleader and I’m out in the smoker shed.|Courtney Love

The love of the famous        like all strong passions       is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically         and it is independent of persons.|Susan Sontag

People hate me because I am a multifaceted        talented         wealthy         internationally famous genius.|Jerry Lewis

Celebrity damages private life.|Tim Berners-Lee

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom      everything else is poverty.|Hedy Lamarr

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.|Edmund Burke

Just because you’re not famous      doesn’t mean you’re not good.|Laura Linney

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.|Lillian Hellman

Famous          adj.: Conspicuously miserable.|Ambrose Bierce

The problem is          the more famous you get    the more people see you who didn’t choose to.|Louis C. K.

It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.|Alan Alda

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important        but believe me         it’s just an illusion.|Juliette Binoche

Fame   I have already. Now I need the money.|Wilhelm Steinitz

For a time      at least           I was the most famous person in the entire world.|Jesse Owens

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave    not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can’t be on top all the time       it isn’t natural.|Olivia De Havilland

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.|Jeff Foxworthy

I can do whatever I want – I’m rich I’m famous   and I’m bigger than you.|Don Johnson

I’m famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can’t count on it.|Dave Chappelle

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local        homegrown celebrity.|Tony Wilson

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.|Helen Hayes

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.|Johnny Mathis

The thing about being famous is    it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.|Margot Kidder

I have been very happy       very rich       very beautiful          much adulated         very famous and very unhappy.|Brigitte Bardot

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated  to be wealthy           to have power requires access to major institutions.|C. Wright Mills

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.|Princess Margaret

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.|Emily Dickinson

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.|Daniel J. Boorstin

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.|Russell Crowe

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful – unless one was striving for mediocrity.|William Hurt

One thing about being famous is the people around you            you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.|Charles Barkley

I can’t imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success  talent.|Kat Dennings

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.|Lord Byron

I’ve worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.|Barry Gibb

Celebrity        to me is not a thing to seek.|Aidan Quinn

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity          like getting dressed up for the red carpet.|America Ferrera

Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy.|Bennett Cerf

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!|Agnetha Faltskog

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don’t know       and who don’t know us.|Nicolas Chamfort

I like being famous when it’s convenient for me and completely anonymous when it’s not.|Catherine Deneuve

Living in L.A.            everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don’t care about fame  I don’t care about being a celebrity. I know that’s part of the job       but I don’t feed into anyone’s idea of who I should be.|Jessica Alba

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.|Marilyn Monroe

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.|Kinky Friedman

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.|Emily Dickinson

The more they applaud        the bigger your salary will be.|Anna Held

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.|Carol Burnett

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.|Aaron Carter

Indeed wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.|Lucius Accius

I want to be famous everywhere.|Luciano Pavarotti

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.|Bill O’Reilly

When you become famous  being famous becomes your profession.|James Carville

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.|Danielle Steel

I can’t see any value in being a celebrity  famous for being famous.|Noomi Rapace

The whole celebrity culture thing – I’m fascinated by     and repelled by        and yet I end up knowing about it.|Anderson Cooper

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?|Barbra Streisand

I will either be famous or infamous.|Otto Dix

For me            growing up   the downside of it was that as a kid you don’t want to stand out. You don’t want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father        you know? But I’m a product of nepotism. That’s how I got my foot in the door          through my dad.|Jeff Bridges

Being big and famous doesn’t get you more freedom     it gets you less.|Robert Wyatt

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing           you can do nothing too.|P. J. O’Rourke

Normal is such a hard word to use because everyone’s idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.|Sarah Michelle Gellar

I seek no longer to be a ‘famous’ person   and instead I wish to live a ‘normal’ life.|Sinead O’Connor

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.|Matt Damon

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great up until the point when it wasn’t.|Noel Gallagher

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling       when I’m not famous any more.|Eva Herzigova

When you become a celebrity        the world owns you and your image.|Megan Fox

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.|Amanda Seyfried

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.|Meg Cabot

If there’s anything more mortifying than being famous at 14    it’s being washed up right after.|Moon Unit Zappa

Look at Jessica Simpson. She’s famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe  and she actually wasn’t that dumb         but that’s how she was perceived – and that’s what got popular.|Danica McKellar

Fame is a lot of pressure     especially when you’re responsible for your entire family. Financially            emotionally – everything.|Nick Carter

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.|Sarah Jessica Parker

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.|Danny Bonaduce

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich  beautiful       and famous more Maureen Dowdity than they deserve.|Maureen Dowd

But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it’s a lie and they’re protected if the person’s famous or it’s a company.|Steve Wozniak

It’s part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what’s been printed about me.|Winona Ryder

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world – Pakistan         Saudi Arabia Morocco       Turkey          Syria  Lebanon – there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim            they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ.|Muhammad Ali

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.|Jay-Z

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.|Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer… I don’t know why that started… The way I sing           probably.|Bob Seger

You can become famous but you can’t become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.|Dave Chappelle

I mean if anyone’s comfortable being famous     they’re a psychopath.|Finn Wolfhard

It was that famous joke: What’s the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? ‘Hey    I wrote a song.’|Dave Grohl

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.|John C. Maxwell

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus’ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore  where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin  the religious faith that they follow.|Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I don’t want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.|Sophia Myles

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.|Nipsey Hussle

I thought I’d be famous for being cute.|Rico Nasty

When you’re poor     you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen.|Viola Davis

I don’t want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don’t want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.|Eric Davis

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.|George Bernard Shaw

Fame is really strange. One day you’re not famous         and then the next day you are        and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today  and the rules all still apply – yet everyone looks at you differently.|Matt Damon

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.|Haruki Murakami

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don’t have to be anything else.|Orson Welles

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.|Colin Mochrie

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don’t need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision – a way to be more successful – they have to remain nimble enough to take it.|Eric Ries

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.|Tom Felton

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.|Conor McGregor

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.|Paul Lynde

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are ‘famous ‘ so if you had a good heart then I would imagine you’ll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it.|Meghan Markle

I’ve been famous my entire life; I don’t know any other way.|Cher

Being famous is complete luck      and that’s something you can’t bank on.|Bo Burnham

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.|Robin Williams

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.|Bruno Mars

I don’t like a girl on social media   when you have an open inbox       answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What’s the point? It’s like having your number all out. Everybody think they’re famous when they get 100  000 followers on Instagram and 5  000 on Twitter.|Meek Mill

I don’t think I could think of a single thing that’s more isolating than being famous.|Lady Gaga

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.|William Scott

I don’t want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things     and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right          and because you are famous doesn’t mean you have less of a right.|John Travolta

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.|James Thurber

There are two types of actors: those who say they don’t want to be famous    and those who are liars.|Kevin Bacon

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?|David Icke

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after    and the majority of victories are won that way. But on the other hand     it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing.|Eddie Rickenbacker

People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.|Mae Whitman

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.|Robert De Niro

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons… some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily.|Keith Urban

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.|William Hurt

What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don’t do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.|Bernard Arnault

There’s a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect     and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say            ‘Mia san mia.’ Literally       it is     ‘We are we    ‘ but it means ‘We are who we are.’ That’s not being very arrogant  but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality.|Bastian Schweinsteiger

My mentor was Clara Ward of the famous Ward gospel singers of Philadelphia. And my dad was my coach. He coached me. And just my natural love for music is what drove me.|Aretha Franklin

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.|Kate Moss

I’m not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different.|Anton Corbijn

Face it I didn’t become famous until I took my clothes off.|Jude Law

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they’re on Twitter. It’s just stupid.|George Clooney

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He’s just famous for his sound.|David Lee Roth

Tom Cruise   he’s a lot more famous than me.|David Beckham

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place         but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.|Zig Ziglar

That’s the most terrible thing about being an Terry Pratchett – standing there at your mother’s funeral            but you don’t switch the Terry Pratchett off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said – one of the famous lady novelists – ‘unhappy is the family that contains an Terry Pratchett’?|Terry Pratchett

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing  but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.|Robert Benchley

What’s the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.|Peter Falk

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.|Katharine Hepburn

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.|Saul Leiter

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician       I’m up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.|Eric Clapton

People think being famous is fun. It’s not. Even a little bit of fame. It’s bizarre. It’s weird.|Steve Lukather

I thought the more famous I became         the more friendships I would have           but the opposite was true.|Alanis Morissette

Before I was famous when I was just working in Gilbert’s Lodge        everything was moving in slow motion.|Eminem

My aunt is a famous L.A. chef       Susan Feniger          and she’s got Street and Border Grill. So a fun night out for me is to go to my aunt’s restaurants.|Ben Feldman

People think being famous is so glamorous         but half the time you’re in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.|Ja Rule

I never thought being famous would be wonderful         but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.|Marianne Williamson

Alan Carr is an out and proud gay man but there isn’t a famous bisexual equivalent – it’s a lot rarer.|Joe Lycett

Luckily          I think           I never really wanted to be famous           I just wanted to make movies.|Seth Rogen

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.|Marco Rubio

After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.|Kin Hubbard

Back in the day with Ronnie Coleman      there’s a fairly famous photo with me doing the bicep pose with him. I also did a pose with Arnold at the Arnold Classic one year in Columbus           Ohio.|Scott Steiner

I didn’t want to be famous or any of that.|Blackbear

I was never very interested in boys – and there were plenty of them – vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.|Bette Davis

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don’t have the nerve for it          I’m too anxious. I don’t know how you’re not obsessed with how people perceive you         because they’re real people     you know? You can convince yourself that they don’t really know you         and that’s true     but how can it not hurt your feelings?|Bo Burnham

When you’re a famous         successful person at 16 years old  the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.|Chris Evert

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person         they would never want to be famous.|Sia

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.|Junipero Serra

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.|Claudia Schiffer

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.|Joe Rogan

Before I was even famous   I was famous on Facebook.|A Boogie wit da Hoodie

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.|Carol Burnett

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going       and that’s a famous story    but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?|Idris Elba

I have noticed that when a girl or guy falls in love         and they call their girlfriend or boyfriend with cute names     then ‘Honey Bunny’ is one of the most famous ones      so we picked that up and created a song.|Sara Khan

To be famous in fact            one has only to kill one’s landlady.|Albert Camus

I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian   and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more.|Ron White

I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.|Cardi B

I have an ambition to write a great book   but that’s really a competition with myself. I’ve noticed that a lot of young writers           people in all media  want to be famous but they don’t really want to do anything. I can’t think of anything less worth striving for than fame.|Zadie Smith

When you’re famous you’re always famous. It doesn’t go away.|Bob Saget

You’ve got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you’ve got the real musicians that just love playing music.|Zakk Wylde

Conservatives are often fond of La Rochefoucauld’s famous aphorism that ‘Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue    ‘ and so tend to downplay hypocrisy as a sin. But in the marketplace of ideas they champion       hypocrisy may yet turn out to be the deadliest – or costliest – of sins.|Bari Weiss

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.’|Chloe Grace Moretz

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.|Bo Bennett

Being famous is wicked. But it’s better to be normal.|Rupert Grint

Growing up in Texas and Oklahoma         Ben Johnson was more famous than John Wayne to some of us. I knew him. I worked with him on a low budget film years ago     and we’d sit around at night while waiting for a shot.|Bill Paxton

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.|Hyun Bin

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.|Leigh Hunt

Some people want fame      popularity and huge sales. I’ve always hoped to have a really long career. So I’ve tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn’t realize the two could go together.|Jewel

I was born on October 21    1956 in Burbank      California. My father          Eddie Fisher was a famous singer. My mother  Debbie Reynolds     was a movie star. Her best-known role was in ‘Singin’ In The Rain.’|Carrie Fisher

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.|Tony Curtis

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you’re famous      because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.|Usain Bolt

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.|Charles Williams

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen          who was a very famous movie star at the time    but as a kid it didn’t impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles        riding around in the desert; he was like a second father.|Herb Ritts

Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after          I don’t think having a famous father affected him much.|Kim Weston

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.|Harrison Ford

People like consistency. Whether it’s a store or a restaurant     they want to come in and see what you are famous for.|Mickey Drexler

I remember the defining moment when I first realised I was famous. I was in Africa staying in the little tent city there by the Masai Mara River. Two guys with spears looked at me and said         ‘Frasier?’|Kelsey Grammer

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and   like            his mother.|Elizabeth Olsen

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.|Moliere

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I’m dead.|Laura Kightlinger

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!|Bruce Dickinson

Jack Palance was my distant uncle – that’s the family gossip. Growing up      my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous ‘heavy’ in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars.|Chuck Palahniuk

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes         and are upon a footing with them.|Francis I

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big.|Sting

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.|Marilyn vos Savant

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous.|Carole King

I think being famous is more of a hindrance        a constraint  than just letting yourself be free.|Martin Yan

When a place advertises itself as ‘World Famous            ‘ you may be sure it isn’t.|Herb Caen

When I started on MySpace            people wanted to support me         but once I rose to fame with the MTV show    they felt like I had abandoned them for some reason     that I was too famous to talk to them anymore.|Tila Tequila

I think I’m a better filmmaker than actor  so I already know that. That’s OK. I can handle not being a famous actor.|Taika Waititi

I don’t care about being famous.|J.I.D

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!|Madison Beer

I’m not a very good impersonator  my friends maybe   but not famous people.|Diane Kruger

I don’t care to be famous. But at the same time    you look at all the role models these little girls have            and they don’t have anyone to look up to. I mean           it’s weird       but if I just hid out and didn’t let myself be known  who would they look up to instead           you know?|Bethany Hamilton

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal.|Zach Galifianakis

A famous man once said     ‘A sure formula for failure is to try and please everyone.’ Some might say I built a career on doing just the opposite of pleasing everyone.|Dan Pena

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.|Casey Kasem

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 Famous 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.|Johnny Depp

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.|Tobey Maguire

For me            I never           never from the moment I started acting  had a desire to be famous.|Carla Gugino

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.|AJ Lee

I remember being superyoung        like nine or ten years old    and thinking ‘Man  I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.|Bo Burnham

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.|Cat Stevens

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers.|Roberto Clemente

To be famous and broke is hard.|David Spade

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.|Penn Jillette

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.|Lafcadio Hearn

Before ‘Titanic          ‘ yes    I had done some things and           yes     I had been nominated for an Academy Award       but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose      yes     I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it’s just a bit daft for me.|Kate Winslet

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?|Justin Kan

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.|Norman Cousins

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.|Bill O’Reilly

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.|Kevin Bacon

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.|Lady Gaga

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.|Julia Roberts

I grew up in Lucknow         which is famous for its street food and kebabs. It was the street food and Lucknowi kebabs that inspired me. The culture of the varieties of food that I tasted as a child inspired me to be a cook.|Ranveer Brar

It’s funny – nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame           but they don’t have the money to hide from it.|Matt LeBlanc

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.|Gyorgy Ligeti

Right now I’m the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there’s not going to be any other silent movies.|Berenice Bejo

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.|Michael Korda

I’m actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.|Dylan Moran

I grew up with a lot of people who are famous now. I was friends with Hilary and Haley Duff. They are such lovely girls. I have watched their careers blossom      which I am really happy for. I grew up with Ashley Tisdale; we used to both live in Valencia   so we used to hang out back in the day.|Madeline Zima

I like to call myself as son of famous father and father of famous son.|Rishi Kapoor

I find the most normal things about famous people to be the most fascinating.|Abbi Jacobson

My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.|Ian Ziering

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.|Helmut Newton

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we’re famous all over the world.|Martha Reeves

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.|Alan Bennett

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them    because it lasts about a year and then they’re nothing again.|Brian Johnson

To be a Southern Ground artist      you have to be a lifer. It’s not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It’s about really paying your dues. It’s people I’m fans of and want to help in the business.|Zac Brown

I’d probably be famous now if I wasn’t such a good waitress.|Jane Siberry

It’s always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am.|Emily Blunt

I want to be in ‘Glee’ but I’m told I’m not famous enough to be a cameo yet.|Carey Mulligan

Yankee Stadium       and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle       Joe DiMaggio           Lou Gehrig            all of those guys.|Bert Campaneris

You know      one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi.|Marilu Henner

Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something – and the film was a failure.|Sidney Buchman

So I’m a young boy in the 1940s growing up       seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis  seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They’re living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.|Ed Smith

I didn’t have any aspirations to be famous at all.|Chris Rea

I don’t want to be famous or recognizable. I don’t want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet… I’ve been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like            and that’s just not something I want.|Sia

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.|John Cusack

It’s too late for me to get married before I’m famous. You never know people’s intentions.|Carmelo Anthony

Fame is something I think happens as a result of trying to do good work. If you’re trying to be famous            your work usually suffers.|Justin Theroux

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.|Tom Wolfe

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.|Emma Watson

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.|Cass Elliot

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.|Bonnie Wright

Before I started my modeling career at 20            I used to replay fashion show videos on-line and study how famous models walk and pose on runways.|Kim Woo-bin

I’d prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.|Kelly Reilly

I don’t put weight on fame  and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.|Jessica Alba

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.|Jean-Claude Van Damme

My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person.|Andy Warhol

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.|Ellen DeGeneres

I keep saying I’m not at all famous in my own country  because people do not think I have done anything for India.|Freida Pinto

Everybody think they’re famous when they get 100       000 followers on Instagram and 5  000 on Twitter.|Meek Mill

I didn’t get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts        and man     when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids           especially their kids it makes it all worthwhile.|Tim O’Brien

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.|Oksana Baiul

Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean I don’t walk around like     ‘Oh            I’m trying to be famous’ – I try to lead as normal a life as possible – but sometimes it’s annoying. It’s fine; it’s not a massive problem            but sometimes it’s just a bit uncomfortable.|Kate Moss

It was never about winning medals or being famous.|Nancy Kerrigan

I am not a name-dropper. I can’t help it if everybody I know is famous.|Zsa Zsa Gabor

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you’re familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s ’70s and ’80s in the United States  my family was an integral part of that.|J. D. Vance

I love being famous – it’s phenomenal.|Dave Chappelle

The day I say I’m famous is the day I sound like a fanny.|Limmy

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.|Allegra Huston

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous     and I never dreamt I would be famous.|J. K. Rowling

You become world famous and you sit with kings and queens and then your first job is just a job. You can’t go back to living the way you did before because you’ve been taken out of one setting and shown the other. That becomes a struggle and makes you struggle.|Wilma Rudolph

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.|Elisabeth Moss

It doesn’t matter what famous person I’ve come across in the street     I don’t think I’ve ever shouted.|Lewis Hamilton

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.|Cardi B

Quite frankly I didn’t become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.|Anne Hathaway

I’m the man that made wrestling famous.|Hulk Hogan

You aren’t famous until my mother has heard of you.|Jay Leno

When I was growing up      I thought I’d be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.|Russell Brand

My parents are actually very famous singers in Bulgaria. My dad was in a rock band          and my mom was in a pop group. They met           fell in love    and actually formed a group together to escape the country because it was Communist     and they couldn’t leave. They didn’t know any English but eventually found their way to America.|Leah LaBelle

I have a show on MTV called ‘Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous.’ I think that’s a secret to a vast majority of America.|Bo Burnham

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That’s the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn’t mean you’re a writer    an actor         a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.|Bob Saget

I’m actually a very private person. Sometimes I’m in denial that I’m really famous.|Britney Spears

I don’t need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.|Cory Monteith

If I wasn’t even famous or had any success          I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on            and put on a cool outfit. That’s always been who I’ve been my whole life     so that’s never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween     too.|Gwen Stefani

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.|Sun Myung Moon

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like     because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell    I just wanted to pay my rent on time.|Iyanla Vanzant

Yeah   people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can’t imagine what it must be like for people who are   you know      actually famous.|Elliot Page

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.|Alanis Morissette

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.|Brett Favre

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.|Jenn Proske

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.|Joan Armatrading

I’m English. Our dentistry is not world famous.|Christian Bale

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I’m in   meaning the fame and the glory    the glitter      the rock star the famous part.|Eddie Van Halen

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player’s uniform. It’s the brain’s natural shepherd        herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.|Jacqueline Leo

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.|Richard Ernst

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.’|Michael N. Castle

I’m really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!|Lyle Lovett

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world’s most famous atheist   especially now that his friend and rival for the title Christopher Hitchens          has now gone to meet his Maker.|Ray Comfort

I don’t come from a famous family and don’t have this detachment from everyday people and everyday life. I’m just doing my job and the attention that comes with it is part of the territory.|Ed Westwick

Famous people complain about fame        but they never want to give it back           myself included.|Erica Jong

And I want to be able to – you know         make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.|Meg Whitman

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.|Silvia Colloca

Being famous hasn’t changed my perception of myself – I’ve just grown up.|Cat Deeley

In ‘A Few Best Men ‘ I play a lesbian character. I played the lesbian sister of the bride who ends up kissing a dude at the end     but she was   like    a full-on lesbian in that. And I beat out famous Australian lesbians for the role.|Rebel Wilson

I can deal with it now          but 13 is a tough age to be recognized and famous. It’s a tough age    period.|Bill Skarsgard

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.|Van Morrison

Sometimes you’re famous before you’re good.|Maggie Q

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.|Diane Kruger

People get very excited about very high elements. That’s why Mount Everest is so important – it’s not the most difficult mountain but it’s the most famous because it’s the tallest.|Cesar Pelli

I still forgive him      because by doing what he did       he made it famous.|Alberto Korda

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.|Jay Park

I’ve never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don’t give a damn. And everyone’s very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can’t actually get my head round it.|John Hurt

Sometimes I wonder if I’m as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries.|Stephen Hawking

I don’t like being famous – it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.|Valentino Rossi

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.|Stevie Nicks

I’ve never dated anyone in Hollywood – or anyone famous       for that matter. I don’t know that I’m ever gonna write a song that you will know who it’s about.|Ed Sheeran

I’m famous. That’s my job.|Jerry Rubin

When you look at Michael Jackson           there’s nobody who loves him in that family       nobody. If they did          they’d tell him he didn’t have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael’s been a little touched for about 20 years  but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him.|Jamie Foxx

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad           since I couldn’t be anonymous.|Ben Stiller

On the banks of the Nile      the Rosetta branch  I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq            which is the home of the famous mosque            Sidi Ibrahim.|Ahmed Zewail

I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is ‘In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’|Andy Warhol

My life is way bigger than boxing or acting or being rich or being famous or endorsements.|Claressa Shields

In a lot of aspects it’s cooler that we don’t have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.|Neal Schon

I would have been very happy just working from job to job      paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.|Kristen Stewart

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.|Val Kilmer

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.|Catherine Keener

Hong Kong might be a small place           but its people make it unique. The iconic images of skyscrapers in this bustling metropolis are famous around the world  but it is the people of Hong Kong   standing up for their city on the streets    who make it truly great.|Joshua Wong

It’s nice to have famous people love you.|Millie Bobby Brown

If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car      it is time to spend a few hours on history.|Bo Bennett

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing ‘Othello’ at the National and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl’s famous ‘As You Like It and Company’ at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw            but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.|David Oyelowo

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.|Charlotte Church

In Germany I am not so famous.|Hans Berger

I’m coming out with a wine… I’m actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I’m also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.|NeNe Leakes

I’ve always been successful. Now I’m famous and successful.|Chazz Palminteri

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.|Edward Furlong

When I started skating         it was such a small community. You didn’t aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn’t something anyone had done yet.|Tony Hawk

A lot of people these days are not music lovers – they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.|Shirley Manson

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.|John Cusack

When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine    perched up on some famous so-and-so’s head            it’s tempting to ask your stylist for the same       but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.|Beth Ditto

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.|Johnny Mathis

I’ve got to give a lot of credit to my cinematographer    Chung-hoon Chung who is a master and among other things shot ‘Old Boy  ‘ which is a very famous single-take fight scene. He’s really a true master.|Ruben Fleischer

Being famous before you’ve formed your personality    before you have that self-esteem  is dangerous.|Chris Evert

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.|Carnie Wilson

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.|Bad Bunny

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.|O. J. Simpson

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.|B. D. Wong

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk     I’m going to veto it and make the John McCains of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.|John McCain

We played in Texas about a year ago        at Emo’s        the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured           well    if I’m finally gonna die onstage     that’s where it’s going to be!|Alan Vega

The problem for us   as viewers     is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they’re famous for    because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.|Bo Burnham

I’m in that comfortable niche where I’m not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you’re real famous you need to do that but I’m not that famous so I don’t need that kind of barrier.|Tony Levin

I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell  I knew I’d never get rich and famous. All the discrimination          the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play – in the end  I didn’t give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I’m a tough man. And in the end   I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.|Charlie Sifford

Because you know when you first become famous         you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.|Bono

You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.|Gary Hart

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.|Lady Gaga

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.|George Matthew Adams

I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say           ‘I don’t understand why this is happening to me.’ There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.|Chad Kroeger

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.|Eberhard Weber

I’ve never worried about being rich or famous – for me  it’s all about the dancing.|Anton du Beke

Usually          when people hear my last name    before they really get to know me or work with me            there’s probably a lot of preconceived notions that come with that. And I imagine most of them aren’t good. Because for every wonderful second generation of a famous person      there’s people that aren’t that way. More entitled people.|Catherine Reitman

Mustard oil is not popular in Kerala at all. We have coconut oil and refined oil. I’ve tried some sweets and      of course       the famous fish        hilsa! I have a cook here with me so he made it in our style.|Mammootty

I don’t want to be famous per se     but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.|Amanda Hocking

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.|John Gurdon

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.|Anthony Hopkins

They saw me those reckless seekers of beauty   and in a night I was famous.|Lillie Langtry

I’ve had to deal         a lot   with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people – especially actors but really any famous people.|Charlie Kaufman

I didn’t think I was a famous singer. I didn’t think I was a star or that I could make the waters part – just that singing was what I was going to do.|Linda Ronstadt

I do not like being famous. I like being normal.|Vince Gill

Once you become famous   there is nothing left to become but infamous.|Don Johnson

I think I’ll always be famous. I just hope I don’t become infamous.|CeeLo Green

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.|Bruce Willis

There’s more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you’re being a character.|Kim Kardashian

I’m not looking to be famous          but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.|Jonathan Tucker

Before I was physically there in different countries to meet my fans in person          I didn’t really realize how famous I was.|G-Dragon

It doesn’t matter if you’re famous or infamous. All that matters is you’re a celebrity.|Willie Geist

The stones themselves are thick with history       and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.|Erica Jong

See      ‘A Time to Kill’ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom           over one weekend. After that     I did films that I really wanted to do.|Matthew McConaughey

I remember Michael saying ‘Rich and famous? It’s much better to be just rich’. I didn’t quite get it to begin with. But he’s right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you’ve no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.|Julie Walters

It was I who made Fellini famous  not the other way around.|Anita Ekberg

Other famous men    those of much talk and few deeds soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.|Jose Marti

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.|Ian Hart

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.|Ang Lee

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn’t want anyone to know who I was.|Robert Smith

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things      but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.|Enya

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.|Jarvis Cocker

When you’re very famous   very young   there’s that little thing of     ‘Are they being nice to me because they think I’m a nice person? Or is it because they want to tell their friends ‘Guess who I was with last night?’|Nicholas Hammond

I became famous almost before I had a craft.|Farrah Fawcett

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.|Van Morrison

I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me   and it makes me very anxious.|Bo Burnham

All my life     it’s been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.|Samantha Fox

I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous.|Kim Weston

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone          their friends will say: ‘Is that kid from ‘Love Actually’ there?’ And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: ‘Are you famous?’ I don’t know how to answer.|Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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.|Kristen Bell

Being famous is great          it’s not like bad or horrible or anything.|Dave Chappelle

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike  hand-me-down        and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals    so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.|Jay-Z

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis        it ground to a halt at a certain point  and that was it.|Rita Moreno

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks.|Murray Rothbard

There aren’t many downsides to being rich          other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous         that’s a 24 hour job right there.|Bill Murray

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.|Russell Brand

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian         who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.|Chloe Grace Moretz

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.|Rick Danko

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.|Hedy Lamarr

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.|Yves Saint Laurent

They used to but not any more. You kind of get used to it – you accept it is part of your job – if you’re famous and you want this life         you have got to accept this part of it as well.|Charlotte Church

I’ve got a nice collection of paintings – a Basquiat          a black-and-white Warhol that’s like a Rorschach test          and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It’s almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There’s a wall above my fireplace reserved for it.|Jay-Z

What I’ve said before           only half in joke      is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or           maybe better say everybody is familiar.|Seamus Heaney

Being in ‘Us Weekly’ does not make you famous.|Bradley Cooper

My music’s gotten much more famous than me.|J. J. Cale

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.|Jarvis Cocker

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn’t out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It’s not like I love interviews.|Adam Levine

I read a book on candles and got curious. I followed it up by taking a course with famous London-based candle maker David Constable. And now these have become the passion of my life.|Dimple Kapadia

I’m astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I’d become famous.|Danielle Steel

There’s this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting            but if there’s no talent you won’t get the part.|Lily Collins

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?|Ryan Giggs

I knew I was famous the day I played football with mates in L.A. I scored a goal and Rod Stewart jumped on top of me. I thought: ‘I had a poster of you on my wall when I was 12.’|Mick Hucknall

On an emotional level         success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really            seriously       never want to be famous here.|Robbie Williams

Quite often I can be in a bookshop standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham  yet no one recognises me. I often say I’m a famous John Grisham in a country where no one reads.|John Grisham

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!’|Bonnie Hunt

If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up            they’re not going to pay you any money.|Ron White

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.|Lisa Lopes

On the Italian side    we can trace the family back 2      000 years. I have a cousin in Rome           a famous archaeologist           Count Andrea Carandini    who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family        Carandinus   painted on it.|Christopher Lee

I am a die hard fan of Lucknow food        so whenever I am in city I make sure to have the famous kebabs.|Javed Ali

I be wearing my own merch outside         trying to get more famous.|Dominic Fike

I got into this business because I like acting and I want to make movies. I would be happy living the rest of my life never famous.|Scott Eastwood

If I wanted to be famous     I could have been famous before.|David Gest

I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things    yeah   that sounds great.|B. J. Novak

I don’t have a problem with recognition… It’s very         very rarely about who I am            it’s always            ‘I love your work.’… It’s always in relation to my work which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to ‘Oh     you’re a famous personality.’|C. C. H. Pounder

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.|Oscar De La Hoya

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.|Nicky Hilton

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.|Richard Lewis

Vegas is famous for a lot of things and bad marriages are one of them. Margo and I are proof that you can make this work. It just takes a little effort.|Ron White

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.|Moses Mendelssohn

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.|Graham Norton

I’ve learned how to be famous and a lot of people don’t prepare for it and it’s something that can change life for the better or for the worst.|Israel Adesanya

I think anybody who’s famous has to deal with their fame in their own way  and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who’s looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.|Adrian Grenier

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you’re famous.|Danielle Steel

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.|Jane Goodall

People have heard my music          but all my famous songs were made famous by somebody else… But that was my goal.|J. J. Cale

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.|Anton du Beke

One of the small joys that’s easy to miss in London is the blue plaques on buildings. These are put up to commemorate the famous on the houses they lived in.|A. A. Gill

I don’t go to premieres. I don’t go to parties. I don’t covet the Oscar. I don’t want any of that. I don’t go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous        that’s a whole other career. And I haven’t got any energy for it.|Gary Oldman

I’d never read ‘Lord of the Rings’ until I was asked to play Gandalf     so I didn’t really know it was a frightfully famous book.|Ian Mckellen

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.|Joseph B. Wirthlin

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked       she got famous for breaking the law.|Stephen Colbert

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.|Barry Zito

Anybody that was famous found their way to the Playboy Mansion. It was exciting for me. But I didn’t know half of them!|Barbi Benton

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.|A’Lelia Bundles

We don’t feel like we’re famous. We just feel like we’re doing what we love.|Sasha Banks

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.|Robert Crumb

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.|Danielle Steel

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.|Kate Adie

In Los Angeles          as I gained and lost celebrity         then gained it again I often found myself wondering why I       out of thousands like me    had become famous.|Patrick Dempsey

I don’t really think reviewing music is something you’re going to get famous doing overnight.|Anthony Fantano

Be you. If people like it       great. My music is honest  and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.|DJ Snake

To enjoy being famous        you need to have a screw loose.|Diablo Cody

Slowly but surely     we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy      which is our objective.|Paul Biya

Yeah   I love being famous. It’s almost like being white            y’know?|Chris Rock

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.|Pauly Shore

There’s a famous artist         Ron English in New York that just         or Andy Warhol for that matter            that did pop art that terrorized society. And that’s          for the last like 10   15 years        that’s all I wanted to do        is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.|Al Jourgensen

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.|Seth Lloyd

The fire in the belly is essential     otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.|Morrissey

People will ask         ‘Are you famous?’ And I always answer  ‘My mother thinks so.’|Yo-Yo Ma

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.|Glenn Hughes

To put it simply – you know           a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don’t buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing   or an exciting thing or a wonderful thing.|Evangeline Lilly

In Hollywood            you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I’ve never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death           it’s still okay with me.|Olivier Martinez

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.|Alicia Silverstone

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.|Lee Ryan

I’m so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it’s working          but more and more people are becoming Internet famous       and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself           which you might not get otherwise.|Aubrey Peeples

I get recognized        but I’m not really a famous famous.|Dave Attell

You don’t become a chef to become famous.|Eric Ripert

I didn’t want kids to think that to be happy          they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.|Dan Savage

My sister Mathilde is an actress     but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She’s famous just in France. She’s very commercial and does big comedies. So        acting was part of my family         and that’s how I was raised.|Emmanuelle Seigner

On the whole the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because the ‘conscientious scruples of all men’ deserve the greatest ‘delicacy and tenderness.’|Martha Nussbaum

I’m doing a new musical on Broadway     which opens in October called ‘The Boy from Oz          ‘ where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don’t know      he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.|Hugh Jackman

Naples is famous for its handmade ties so I always buy them there.|Gino D’Acampo

I didn’t want to be famous   I just wanted to sing.|Lisa Stansfield

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help or need it. And that reputation is earned.|Richard Russo

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they’ve done.|Cullen Hightower

The food in Mathura is authentic and delicious. Mathura is famous for its Chana Chidwa which was my cheat snack for the two days I spent there.|Siddharth Shukla

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.|Javier Hernandez

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.|Sia

Sweden is famous for many things – but not fashion.|Stefan Persson

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.|Tiesto

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.|Madonna Ciccone

Air travelers  of course       are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on.|Meghan Daum

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.|Lawrence Welk

Even as a kid I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good.|Neil Peart

When I first got famous in the ’60s            I got a little too famous      and in order to escape showbusiness I moved to Hawaii.|Buffy Sainte-Marie

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.|Michelle Pfeiffer

If you look closely   there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers           in that it is filled with blank pages       dark pages    it has stars made of words  the famous magical cube made of numbers         and there is even a page which is a mirror.|Guillermo Cabrera Infante

It’s not normal to meet somebody and then they become wildly famous or they become wildly rich or all these things.|Chrishell Stause

When the Happy Mondays first got famous         I just thought            ‘I deserve this           I deserve to sell records.’|Shaun Ryder

I didn’t get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow    gradual process       so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.|Sarah McLachlan

I am entitled to my privacy. People say    ‘No     you’re not entitled to your privacy because you married a famous person and you have Instagram.’ Well           that’s not really true.|Hilaria Baldwin

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for ‘Reggie-isms  ‘ kind of like ‘Yogi-isms.’ He always said if you want to be a good quarterback    when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him   ‘You mean ambidextrous   coach?’|Peyton Manning

I’d had people say     ‘You’ll enjoy being famous for a week     and you’ll never enjoy it again’. But I don’t think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.|Matt Damon

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.|Rachel Johnson

I get intimidated by famous people. When I’m around them and they look at me like I belong       I’m like     ‘Are you nuts? You’re freakin’ famous!’ Whether it’s Elmo or a Beatle or Vince Gill           it’s humbling to be in a room with these folks.|Kristian Bush

Rich and famous is not bad but poor and famous sucks.|Paul Hogan

When you’re famous you have a certain sense of responsibility because so many people are looking at you for inspiration and for influence.|Aimee Osbourne

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the ‘intrinsic value’ of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase     few know what it really means.|Robert Kiyosaki

One thing hurts me. I keep hearing ‘Terry Fox.’ I’m not doing the run to become rich or famous… To me       being famous is not the idea of the run. The only important part is that cancer can be beaten.|Terry Fox

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.|Liev Schreiber

Blogs are easy to start          but unless the Adam D’Angelo is famous            it takes years to build a following.|Adam D’Angelo

Harvard is famous for being an ‘absorbing state’ for faculty with almost no one leaving it for another institution      which is why the decision of granting tenure is a life long commitment.|Gita Gopinath

I have no interest in being famous for the sake of being famous.|Bryan Greenberg

It took me a long time to realize you don’t choose what you’re famous for.|D. B. Sweeney

People now live their lives like an open wound to be famous – they do bad things because they’re rewarded for it.|Ricky Gervais

I don’t feel famous.|Ninja

Famous doesn’t mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn’t mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.|Melissa McCarthy

To my surprise         the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu      the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person    with the formality usually reserved for China’s most famous writers.|Evan Osnos

The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ together in 2004 and we’ve stayed in touch.|Adam Garcia

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.|Jennifer Grey

I agree that not everyone knows who I am. I am not that famous.|Sudha Chandran

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles  and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.|Lew Wasserman

I don’t feel famous.|Tamara Feldman

I became famous for the fact that I would break many   many limits. People said    ‘He does all these crazy things.’ But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said        ‘Everest and the 8        000-meter peaks without oxygen – impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.’|Reinhold Messner

It’s not a matter of becoming a superstar. Fame and money aren’t the purpose of all this. No actor’s going to say   ‘I don’t want to be famous.’ But the main purpose for doing what I’m doing is the passion in the work.|Christopher Lambert

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.’|Frank Sinatra Jr.

‘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.|Richard Flanagan

The whole business of getting famous was good fun      but it was a long time ago.|Julian Clary

I can never really enjoy being famous.|Utada Hikaru

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you’re a certain age            he was probably a part of your youth. I think that’s pretty cool.|Adam Brody

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.|Tim Roth

My father was the doyen of the divorce barristers. He was an extremely erudite and very famous divorce barrister. So that       when I was a little boy in the nursery      instead of a story like ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs     ‘ I used to get ‘The Duchess and the Seven Correspondents.’|John Mortimer

In the sixties  everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn’t know anyone unknown who didn’t become famous.|Michael Caine

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.|Shaun Ryder

I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn’t double – it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don’t really give them anything.|Matt Damon

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.|Snoh Aalegra

I didn’t like noisy cinemas when I wasn’t famous.|Ricky Gervais

I never had a desire to be famous… I was fat. I didn’t know any fat famous actresses… You know once a fat kid always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.|Kate Winslet

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.|Akira Toriyama

I had a very famous trainer tell me once   ‘You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal ever.’ They are always going to be wild   no matter what anybody says.|Jack Hanna

Your face is your calling card        but you’re not so famous that you can’t go out.|Vincent Schiavelli

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.|Denis Leary

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they’re very different routes.|James Purefoy

‘The Admirable Crichton’ is probably Barrie’s most famous work after ‘Peter Pan’    nearly a pendant to that classic.|Michael Dirda

I’m terrified of being too famous. What I’m really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it’s me          that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.|Noomi Rapace

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.|Chris Rock

Nikola Tesla  one of Colorado’s famous residents          always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.|Kimbal Musk

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.|Evel Knievel

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.|James McCartney

It’s more important for me to feel content than to be famous.|Samantha Morton

If I’ve made money from music     it was never my aim to do that. I didn’t do it to become famous.|Vangelis

I didn’t live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn’t live in a big house.|Rohan Marley

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.|Ricky Gervais

What got me motivated was my dad’s idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It’s an all-black            all-male school. Martin Luther King went there. The most famous person in my class was Spike Lee. And I really caught fire. I was so inspired by the people around me that I went from C’s and D’s to straight A’s by the time I left.|Jeh Johnson

The more famous you become       the less people will tell you your faults.|Paloma Picasso

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we’re all the same. Somebody’s not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery – we’re all the same.|Aubrey O’Day

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic      they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it          by changing it around and using it            in some way to give some relevance.|Robert Rodriguez

I’ve always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.|Vince Gill

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.|Peter Greenaway

I had my Aunt Rosie            who was famous and then not       so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it.|George Clooney

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It’s to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That’s how I enjoyed fame in ’74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.|Philippe Petit

Once in a while         I remember that I am famous.|Richa Chadha

Messi is as famous as any footballer has ever been        and yet          when it comes down to it   we don’t know much about him. I read that he is a family man and likes to walk his dogs         but beyond that     he’s a mystery          really. I like that.|Paul Scholes

I didn’t have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour         all because of this thing somebody said.|Steve Vai

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.|Edmund Morgan

There is this power that comes with being famous.|Rod Stewart

I didn’t know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he’d be sort of stuck-up          you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much… that I had a hard time painting him.|Norman Rockwell

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish.|Maisie Williams

Wherever I go           there’s always a child          an old woman           that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family.|Elian Gonzalez

I didn’t become an actor to be famous. I genuinely love acting and never expected to make a penny at it.|Justin Chon

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised      which I like. When I was little            I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity        though           is it’s being famous for being brilliant at something.|Rachael Stirling

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down            they’re just regular people. Like Larry King. We’ve been friends for forty years. He’s one of the few guys I know who’s really famous. One minute he’s talking to the president on his cell phone and then the next minute he’s saying to me         ‘Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?’|Don Rickles

I’m famous for being a silky midfielder.|Phil Daniels

I don’t have any expectations as an actor  and being rich and famous is not my driving force.|James D’arcy

I don’t mean being famous is a perk          because one knows that it’s not necessarily a perk         but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one’s field. Public perks. Like           I don’t know     general friendliness and willingness to please    just to point out two.|Emma Thompson

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.|John Ritter

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing    and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.|John Tesh

We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.|Ellen Pompeo

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.|Louie Anderson

I didn’t get rich and famous but I do what I love.|Ron Shock

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut   or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.|Dorothy Hamill

To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant         to be agile and educated.|Anna Wintour

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father       and I didn’t know where I fit in.|Elle King

If you wanna be famous      then it’s okay if the music is fake  because fame isn’t real.|Josh Homme

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight.|Lauren Bacall

I think when anyone says you look like a famous person you fiercely deny it            and then go around hoping other people will say it      too.|Frank Skinner

I was in a karaoke video in 1991   for a song called ‘Sukiyaki ‘ which is a very famous Japanese song            and I’ve actually heard from people that they’ve been in bars in Asia where they’ve seen me come up in the ‘Sukiyaki’ video that they play behind you. I’m in that. I’m in a karaoke video.|Michael Weatherly

I want to become more famous      even more famous.|Yayoi Kusama

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.|Rivers Cuomo

I worked among many famous philosophers       and I tried to observe how they treated students. I knew which ones I wanted to be like        and which ones I didn’t.|Martha Nussbaum

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.|Sharon Stone

I wasn’t trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean       that wasn’t the first thing I wanted.|G-Dragon

The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born          the tombs in which they lie            the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds  and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.|Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The Turkish government is very famous for hunting down those who oppose Erdogan… I just didn’t really want to risk my life by going to Europe where Erdogan’s long arms are everywhere.|Enes Kanter

I’d change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That’s just not in my psyche      I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.|Jason Clarke

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.|Lucy Hale

To be fair to David Brent    he wants to be famous for doing something        for being a musician            but he’s just not good enough.|Ricky Gervais

In law school we studied the famous book ‘Getting to Yes       ‘ co-written by the head of the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project.|Erin O’Toole

What’s easy to forget once you’re minorly famous is how nerve-racking it is to walk up to someone famous and interrupt them. When I’m taking a picture with a fan         it’s not uncommon for their hands to be shaking or for me to feel their heart pounding through their rib cage. But the best part is how easy it is for me to make someone’s day.|Max Joseph

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.|Helena Bonham Carter

Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn’t leave my house because I was worried about someone being like       ‘Oh     are you Mac Miller?’ and then the rest of the night I couldn’t be myself.|Mac Miller

I think some fans are very passionate       they just say what they want to say but they just need to slow it down a bit. We’re still only human. We’re not what people think. We might be famous but we love the sport and just want to play football.|Jadon Sancho

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life          and I hope this doesn’t become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I’ll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.|Ayelet Zurer

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.|Ron White

All I dreamed of when I became a footballer was to play for a club as big as Real Madrid. It’s maybe the most famous and best club in the history of football.|Luka Modric

At first           I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.|Phil Donahue

I am obsessed with silver jewellery           so I visited the Johri Bazar which is famous for it and bought a lot of silver rings  earrings and pendants.|Amyra Dastur

I lived in New York my whole life. Like every New Yorker    I have stories about spending summers on the Jersey shore   riding the roller coaster in Seaside that is now famous for that sickening photo of it being washed out to sea.|Marissa Jaret Winokur

Some people don’t care why they are famous; they just want to be famous    and that makes my skin crawl a bit.|George Ezra

I want to be so famous that I’m the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I’d be walking down the street      and someone would be       like    ‘Hey   look at this Kumail Nanjiani.’|Kumail Nanjiani

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.|James Woods

The more we can make our developers famous   the better.|David Baszucki

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous   not commercially exploited           and no longer available as a result.|Lawrence Lessig

In the media age       everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age  everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter.|Stephen Colbert

They were all famous and fantastic fellows.|Peter Scott

I’m kinda famous for my barbecues – I’m always hosting parties.|Bonnie McKee

For a while    I became a model scout and agent thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside and even kicked off the famous ‘size zero debate’ with an article I wrote to the ‘Evening Standard’ about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business      back in 2005.|Jameela Jamil

I loved cowboy films and TV series          and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was ‘Laramie’        with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch ‘The Lone Ranger’          which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.|Kazuo Ishiguro

I ain’t expect it. I just expected to be Chicago famous – ‘hood famous. I ain’t expect to be outside-of-Chicago famous.|Lil Durk

In 1997          I was working with Greg Wilson of Red Ball Tiger       our ad agency at the time   when he came up with an addition to the famous slogan ‘I guarantee it’ that I was known for saying.|George Zimmer

Nothing could prepare you for being instantly famous.|Teresa Giudice

I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book           it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.|Edgar Winter

I haven’t gotten jobs because I’m famous or I have a big Twitter feed – it’s primarily directors. People employ me because I’m right for the part. But then        everybody needs a bit of luck        being in the right place at the right time. You just gotta be in that place for that opportunity to come by.|Jason Clarke

I will never forget when we performed at the Tokyo Dome. Growing up       I was told that only A-list famous musicians are invited to perform at that venue.|Momo Hirai

People are getting famous now for serving food out of a truck or for well    pork buns. I don’t know if I’m really pleased to be a part of that. I’m somewhat terrified of what the future holds         especially in America.|David Chang

When I first redesigned the ‘Surfer’ magazine      a magazine about magazines took a copy to the famous American designer Milton Glaser and – surprise surprise – he hated it.|David Carson

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.|Alison Moyet

My dad was an architect     and he wasn’t a rich guy     but in our little world in Philadelphia      he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.|Kevin Bacon

I love being famous. It’s almost like being white.|Chris Rock

I would love to work into my eighties. I don’t want to be someone who only does a couple of big films and then is famous for just 15 minutes.|Tuppence Middleton

I know I’m not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I’m not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those or both          as some people do when they get famous            that’s when the mental illness arrives.|Elizabeth Gilbert

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.|Mase

You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner but not both  and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.|Clive Anderson

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.|Sandra Lee

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog       and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good          she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2   she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing.|Hanna Rosin

‘Leave It To Beaver’ is a fairly famous show in America           but I don’t think it travelled. It was one of those typical ’50s family comedies. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the dark presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill.|Harry Shearer

‘Swallow My Gift’ is all about music being its own reward. I don’t do it to become more famous; I don’t do it to make money. I don’t do it from an ego-driven point of view.|Russell Crowe

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!|Michael Korda

‘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.|Lea Thompson

I have actor friends  but they’re not famous. I feel like if you’re an actor or – famous          you have to overly prove that you’re a normal  cool person.|Amanda Bynes

Ain’t nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say that.|Rudy Boesch

I sang ‘Nessun Dorma’ twice with Pavarotti         and he told me he’d heard ‘Smoke’ about five or six times   and every time was different. He was so jealous because if he deviated one jot from the traditional interpretation of the famous arias       he’d be crucified. We have the freedom.|Ian Gillan

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I’d become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world   loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn’t see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.|Larry Hagman

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.|Ian Hart

I had to do this very aggressive      big score in a very short time        and knowing that in the beginning       middle           and end would be this very very famous theme  but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging.|Danny Elfman

None of my characters are rich or famous            and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.|Nicholas Sparks

I think my most famous was ‘Poco’s Legend.’ It’s a white album with a simple line drawing of a horse. It almost has a Picasso feel to it. I remember that Rusty Young            the lead singer of the band said            ‘I want you to draw a horse for the song ‘Legend           ‘ which is about a phantom spirit horse. I want you to do it in several lines.’|Phil Hartman

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.|Evel Knievel

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.|Elizabeth Hurley

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.|Will Cuppy

I’m the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.|Lefty Gomez

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps         fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.|Luigi Barzini

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.|Simeon Strunsky

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.|David Walliams

You know      I’m a television personality. It’s not like I’m a famous hooker or something!|Brett Somers

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.|Juliette Lewis

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.|Peter Cushing

I was famous from birth.|Peter Fonda

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.|Robert Patrick

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.|Slobodan Milosevic

I totally related to Cole Porter’s magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room      which he was famous for doing      as was Gershwin. You couldn’t drag them away from a piano.|Kevin Kline

My name’s Jennifer Ellison and one day I’m going to be famous!|Jennifer Ellison

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain      tell me           am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?|Tom Sizemore

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?|Jack Osbourne

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.|Suzanne Farrell

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.|Dirk Benedict

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?|Henry Flynt

Being famous gets me good concert tickets         good tables in restaurants  good seats at sporting events and that’s really about it.|Fran Drescher

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.|Thomas Haden Church

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.|Sean Lennon

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.|Kelsey Grammer

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you’re the pedestal they built for you.|Morgan Brittany

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.|Sally Kirkland

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.|Jim Capaldi

Normally       I name my characters after famous comedians.|Paula Danziger

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.|Izabella Scorupco

I think it’s real easy to be famous these days; it’s not real easy to sustain success.|Jerry Jeff Walker

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.|Michael N. Castle

You’re asking the wrong girl about fame. I’m hardly famous. I wouldn’t want to trade places with anyone else.|Nikki Cox

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.|Julia Sweeney

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.|Ann Wilson

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.|Nick Clooney

But just playing the partner of someone famous I had a lot more freedom.|Rachel Griffiths

Similarly        another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.|Seth Lloyd

I’ve never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.|Jeremy London

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.|Louie Anderson

He makes me laugh  Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I’ve never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.|Saffron Burrows

I’m as famous as I want to be.|Tracey Ullman

As a famous person you think how you’re gonna end it get away and have a normal life.|Gwen Stefani

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.|Pat Brown

I’ve never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.|Jeremy Northam

I never thought about being famous.|Damon Wayans

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I’m going to be famous some day.|Haywood Nelson

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.|Clyde Tombaugh

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.|Bobby Thomson

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.|Christopher Parker

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.|Geri Halliwell

I just want to be rich and famous.|Ian Hart

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school         and afterward went to work in Tokyo          where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage   which was an open secret  but it fascinated me.|Arthur Golden

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.|Anthony Holden

It’s not my goal to be a famous actor.|Gavin DeGraw

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they’re famous for.|Mary Lou Retton

I’d definitely rather be rich than famous.|Radha Mitchell

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.|Christopher Plummer

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.|Gabrielle Reece

All I say is that I don’t go out with famous men.|Samantha Mumba

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.|Ronald Harwood

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!’|David Zucker

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.|Griffin Dunne

It’s hard to have a bad hair day when you’re famous.|Marion Jones

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.|David Friedman

When I was younger I used to say One day I’ll be famous.|Katie Price

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn’t change a thing.|Macy Gray

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.|Robert Caro

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.|Shirley Knight

It’s not like I’m the most famous person in the world.|Ron Silver

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!|Christine Lahti

I didn’t get into skating to be famous.|Eric Heiden

It’s not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous       I would have stuck with hockey.|Eric Heiden

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.|Matthew Modine

Of course       Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world   but these films are exceptions       judging from box office returns and press reviews.|Pola Negri

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.|Mickey Spillane

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.|Stephen Rea

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.|Andrew Coyle Bradley

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.|George Thorogood

I’m not unknown      yet I’m not super famous where I can’t go anywhere.|Justin Guarini

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.|Mira Sorvino

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.|Sarah Polley

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.|David Carradine

I don’t like the idea of famous people.|Kristin Hersh

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.|Louise Brown

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.|Kurt Masur

I don’t think I’ll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.|Alison Lohman

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.|Chuck Zito

Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of.|Tia Carrere

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.|Kylie Minogue

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.|Stephen Malkmus

I actually don’t feel famous.|Anwar Robinson

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.|Mickey Gilley

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.|Edie Brickell

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.|Alvin Lee

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.|Phil Collen

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.|Don Henley

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.|Jeremy Bulloch

It’s never been my purpose to become an American icon           or more famous or richer.|Juliette Binoche

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.|Whoopi Goldberg

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.|Gabriela Sabatini

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you’re famous… and it’s not. You just buy more stuff.|Nicole Sullivan

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.|Katie Holmes

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.|Ruud van Nistelrooy

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.|Michael Bolton

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.|Nat King Cole

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.|Kenneth Anger

I always regarded people who want fame with a lot of suspicion. Unless you have a product to sell            I don’t know why anyone would want to be famous. I can’t imagine what need that would fill.|Jessica Cutler

I didn’t want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.|David McCallum

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.|Luciano Pavarotti

The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop     and 26 world championships.|Kurtis Blow

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.|Jill Scott

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.|Panayiotis Zavos

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.|Scott Patterson

Forget about being world famous  it’s hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.|Douglas Coupland

I didn’t set out to be famous; if I’d wanted that    I would have gone on ‘Big Brother.’|Sam Worthington

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.|Joel McHale

I got the famous Oprah hug!|Taylor Lautner

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.|January Jones

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person’s lifestyle that really isn’t suited to me.|Daniel Radcliffe

It wasn’t being an alcoholic – it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life   not having to think about anything.|Julie Walters

I have never wanted to be famous as such – fame is a by-product.|Steve Coogan

For somebody famous         it’s weird anyway to meet someone          because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.|Ricki Lake

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.|Elisha Cuthbert

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn’t know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.|Ethan Hawke

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that          you’re objectifying yourself in some weird way.|Ethan Hawke

I don’t want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.|Kathleen Robertson

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.|Seth Green

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.|Johnny Knoxville

My mom just didn’t put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.|Martha Plimpton

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect   it’s very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don’t want to share.|Rosie O’Donnell

OK      so I’m not famous for the right reasons.|William Hung

I walk the streets      take the train it’s real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: ‘Oh I’m so famous I can’t go places because I created this mythology that I’m so famous I can’t go places.’|Samuel L. Jackson

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.|Andy Samberg

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.|Haile Gebrselassie

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn’t tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.|Neko Case

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.|Diane Keaton

I’m not cut out to be a famous person; I can’t do my hair and makeup well enough.|Jennifer Weiner

I know I have this level of celebrity          of fame          international national         whatever you want to call it but it’s a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you’re in the middle of another famous person’s life and you think to yourself    ‘How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we’re in?’|Kevin Costner

But I don’t feel the need to be famous.|Jessica Alba

In fact I’d just like to own something. Everyone thinks I’m glamorous           rich and famous but all I’ve got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.|Dido Armstrong

I’m famous by default. I came out of the womb   and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.|Frances Bean Cobain

I wanted to go hide. I wasn’t looking to be more famous           I’m famous enough.|Howard Stern

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.|Wesley Snipes

When I was 24          I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous      a movie star  all that stuff. I think it’s cool. But it was not what I was searching for      really. It was more a delusion.|Jean-Claude Van Damme

I know there are people       if I go into a market or a city for the first time    there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person       or the guy from ‘Dumb and Dumber’ or whatever movie they liked. And that’s fine   it gets them in the door       but then it’s my job to give them something different.|Jeff Daniels

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.|Debra Winger

I’ve been around some very famous people          but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.|Emir Kusturica

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.|Jewel

I’ve noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It’s not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you.|David Walliams

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away     you know?|Colin Hay

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever        you have a culture   ‘What does your dad do?’ ‘What does your mom do?’|Cynthia Nixon

I never wanted to be famous.|Dave Attell

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.|Wayne Rooney

If somebody for some reason         for music or for movie        becomes famous      it’s because they have something         something special.|Roberto Cavalli

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking   but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.|Roberto Cavalli

In the beginning        I loved being famous          but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.|Roberto Cavalli

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played          in terms of message discipline      in terms of access for reporters  and especially in the way that sources and subjects       especially famous subjects          treat the media         almost by default there’s more news that’s falling into books.|Ron Suskind

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich            and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I’m more in the second group.|Franka Potente

It wasn’t not being famous any more         or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me         no phones ringing    nothing to do. Because I’m still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now           at 40  I feel I’ve got more to give than I ever have.|Gary Barlow

I was getting a lot of editorial        as in lots of pages in ‘Vogue          ‘ but it’s far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.|Bruce Oldfield

I know it’s a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don’t believe anybody wants to be famous.|Jeremy Renner

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person      but the person whom you are about to discover. You know       like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you’re realizing how great they are.|Terry Gross

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool     then obviously the Beatles and the football club. That’s what people in Liverpool are passionate about.|Ian Rush

I wanted to be a rich famous rock-and-roll star in that order.|Dee Snider

Now    we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed    to put students first so that America can compete    that teachers don’t teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.|Chris Christie

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.|Harry Connick Jr.

I’m willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one           but I think it’s psychologically important to people when they’re famous to be the only famous person they know.|John Mayer

I don’t have famous neighbours and if I did         I’d avoid them. I don’t live the jet-set.|Vanessa Paradis

People don’t get through to the essence of you right away – it’s always the famous ‘girl’ or the famous ‘girlfriend’. I’d rather be known for myself.|Vanessa Paradis

People just assume that if you’re famous  you’re in Hollywood.|Megan Fox

Sometimes people offer you plays they offer you parts but they only offer it because I’m famous.|Chris Rock

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that’s where I got famous.|Tyra Banks

I just don’t feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.|Michael Cunningham

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don’t have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.|Danny Strong

I don’t ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after ‘East Is East’ and ‘Bend It.’|Archie Panjabi

I have a great job writing for ‘The Office ‘ but     really all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is    like    Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.|Mindy Kaling

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.|Dee Dee Myers

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.|Dane Cook

My hair was famous before I was.|Christopher Walken

I don’t know about this thing – being famous. I haven’t figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.|Helen Slater

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.|Nick Clegg

You’ll know if you’re a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box        alongside Hans Zimmer.|Cliff Martinez

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away   you know? And for the last 20 years – you’ve got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again            in a sense      and that’s what I’ve been doing.|Colin Hay

I got out of autobiography because my story is   I was famous            it was hard for me    I got into therapy. I had trouble with food     I got a nutritionist. There’s no story there.|Courtney Thorne-Smith

I really don’t know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else    no other life.|Janet Jackson

I mean I was famous for nothing.|Rick Springfield

It’s interesting because people assume that because I’m famous I know all famous people.|Daniel Radcliffe

I think it’s useful       as a famous person  to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are – because otherwise I’d be sitting here thinking I’m keeping secrets       and wondering when you’re going to find out.|Daniel Radcliffe

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.|Shirley MacLaine

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they’re beautiful and famous and rich. I’m like     ‘Oh my God  I’d be dead.’|Philip Seymour Hoffman

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.|Rod Stewart

I don’t want to end up being a circus act   doing my most famous tricks when I’m 70.|Pharrell Williams

Who elected Larry King America’s grief counselor? We           the viewing public  did     by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.|James Wolcott

I really feel like it’s a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.|Joe Rogan

I’ve never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.|Jennifer Aniston

I married a pretty famous girl         and when we drive through town there’s usually a car following us            when I walk out of my front door in Chelsea there’s six guys waiting for me.|Kevin Pietersen

I heard so many stories from Gaomi’s peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today Gaomi’s peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings            but I think they are a little puzzled by this.|Mo Yan

I never pursued being ‘famous.’|Francesca Annis

Exposure makes you famous          not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.|Francesca Annis

I wanted to be a political science professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big            famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me.|Eliza Dushku

Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you’re being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy.|Colin Wilson

Whenever you’re the child of a famous person    you get judged in odd ways because of that.|Jeff Bridges

I never wanted to be the most famous       the most beautiful   the most extravagant.|Manolo Blahnik

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous         because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.|Arthur Smith

I’ve only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.|Katherine Jenkins

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.|Jane Pauley

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield        I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn’t actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course     as we all know from fairy stories when you achieve that ambition   you find out you don’t want it.|Jarvis Cocker

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.|Miranda Otto

Yeah   I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don’t really dig being famous.|Liz Phair

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.|Shania Twain

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what’s important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?|Sherry Stringfield

I’m hardly famous. I wouldn’t want to trade places with anyone else.|Nikki Cox

I’m officially near-famous. If you’ve got four year old kids and you’ve got cable      then you’ve got no choice but to know who I am. But if you’re one of my peers – a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan – you have no idea who I am. I’m only famous if you’re four.|Steve Burns

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.|Henry Thomas

I don’t feel famous.|Uma Thurman

It’s sour grapes          I admit           I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet     you know what I mean? That’s the level where I want to go.|Frank Black

I became famous so quickly and so young – it was daunting. I was immature and I used to say some really stupid things in interviews. I never smiled on stage so I looked really serious but it was because I hated my teeth and was incredibly nervous.|Gary Numan

Ever since grammar school I knew I wanted to be famous – I always wanted to be a singer.|Jennifer Hudson

After ‘Skins’ I became mildly famous       which was a bit of a disaster.|Nicholas Hoult

But things move in circles: one minute it’s the models who are famous          then it’s the actresses            then it’s the designers.|Rachel Hunter

Actually         bizarrely       in America    I get more appreciation from the odd       unusual stuff I’ve done   almost because I’m not       if you like     famous in America as I am in England.|Steve Coogan

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous  and you’re not sure what they got famous for.|Rainn Wilson

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part     you’re a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you’re trying to get a film financed.|Alexander Payne

When you become famous  you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and famous rock stars     politicians    people who have tremendous power and affluence. It’s not in my DNA   but certainly I have been exposed to it.|William Baldwin

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.|Corey Feldman

My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.|Corey Feldman

I’m not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I’m too feeble.|Kristin Scott Thomas

I remember    when I was an up-and-coming comic       how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone’s spots.|Seth Rogen

The good thing about L.A. is that there’s always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.|Seth Rogen

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer    like Diana Ross or Donna Summer           or an old jazz story that we haven’t seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross ’cause she’s an icon. I’m salivating to do that.|Taraji P. Henson

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child     and I was always obsessed with her. I’ve just been really driven in that direction           and none of my friends were. So         I don’t know what put that bug in me at a young age.|Holly Madison

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you’re getting paid          but it’s more about if you’re steadily working and you’re happy with what you’re doing.|Sarah Hyland

A lot of times on tour it’s about      ‘OK    where am I today? Wow    I’m in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?’ And it’s about trying the food        and really experiencing it.|Fergie

I’m famous for splurging at fast-food places. I’m currently obsessed with Taco Bell’s bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!|Fergie

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.|Alexander McCall Smith

When you reach a certain status in Hollywood    you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.|Jason Lee

I wasn’t a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star – I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.|Jason Lee

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.|Jason Lee

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.|Jenny Slate

You know      I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time    and I’m glad it’s over.|Diablo Cody

I love meeting famous people. I’m even happy just looking at them.|Joey McIntyre

It’s every teenager’s dream to be in a band           tour the world and be famous.|Joey McIntyre

I don’t see myself as famous at all so I’m continuing my life as normal.|Ashley Madekwe

It’s horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while      if you’re not famous or rich            you’re not acceptable.|Bruno Tonioli

I’ve learned to stay away from publicity addicts people who want to be famous for no reason.|Paz de la Huerta

There’s a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn’t be able to just dress up and look pretty.|Rashida Jones

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.|Rashida Jones

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They’re not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After ‘Juno’ I thought: ‘I think I’ve defined myself enough as my own director that I’d love to work with my father.’|Jason Reitman

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.’|Jason Reitman

The actual truth about Gad is it’s one of the original 13 tribes of Israel           so you can actually trace my lineage back to   like    those guys who had like    a hand in the Bible and have since become very famous from that. So I come from very famous lineage. Granted            they didn’t have cameras back then       so none of them had TV shows.|Josh Gad

I never feel so utterly fraudulent as when I review a movie whose charms impress all in the world and I simply do not get it. The other variant is that I love something the world disdains. This has had severe career consequences: I am still famous – or notorious – in certain quarters where I am recalled as the man who liked ‘Hudson Hawk.’|Stephen Hunter

Well    I knew I wanted to be an actor      and I didn’t necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.|Jenna Fischer

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers – it’s what my children call my ‘dead Debbie Macomber wall.’ I have signatures from Mark Twain   Earnest Hemingway            Jack London          Harriett Beecher Stowe      Pearl Buck    Charles Dickens      Rudyard Kipling      Alfred Lord Tennyson        to name a few.|Debbie Macomber

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.|Jessica Cutler

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers            how they handled scandals and mega fame. I’m trying to pick up tips.|Rebecca Black

I actually don’t know anyone who wants to be famous for fame’s sake           at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want.|Michael Ian Black

When I got into the music industry           I wasn’t focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image do my own hair  do my own makeup.|Janelle Monae

I don’t think I’ll ever feel as famous or as popular as I felt when I was a 17-year-old soccer player in Modle. Only about 20          000 people live there and 12           000 of them come to every game. Running onto the pitch each week was just the most fantastic feeling. Nothing can beat that.|Jo Nesbo

I don’t have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I’ve been able to connect with a lot of people.|Ann Brashares

Once you’re famous you can’t go back.|Matthew Morrison

Whenever I’m in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father       but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say   ‘You know what: my dad’s a really           really famous theatre director        ‘ because nobody has any idea.|Rebecca Hall

It’s funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn’t know you before. People always used to say            ‘Do you shop at Home Depot?’ or ‘Does your kid go to such and such school?’ They want to know why they know me    even if they don’t know my name. I don’t think that’s a bad thing        by the way; I think it’s nice to be kind of anonymously famous.|Terry O’Quinn

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries            too. Wright lived into his 90s        and one of his most famous buildings      the Guggenheim Museum in New York         was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings – that is their paradox.|Jane Smiley