Famous Quotes
- 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 on Famous
- The F-word is 'famous,' the C-word is 'celebrity' and S-word is 'star,' in my book. The other three words are fine - you can say those. But 'famous,' 'celebrity' and 'star,' I think, are misused.
- Shailene Woodley on Famous
- The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
- J. K. Rowling on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
- Steven Patrick Morrissey on Famous
- The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.
- John McCain on Famous
- 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 Kasum on Famous
- 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.
- The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.
- Seth Rogen on Famous
- The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
- Robert De Niro on Famous
- 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.
- The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
- Tom Felton on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs amputated below the knee. Using upside down question mark-shaped carbon fiber sprinting prosthetics, called Cheetah blades, Mr. Pistorius can challenge the fastest sprinters in the world.
- Daniel H. Wilson on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
- Louis C. K. on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
- Leigh Hunt on Famous
- The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.
- Robert South on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
- Margot Kidder on Famous
- 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. on Famous
- The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.
- Julian Clary on Famous
- The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
- Anderson Cooper on Famous
- The world's most famous and popular language is music.
- The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy.
- Justin Timberlake on Famous
- 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.
- There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too.
- Sharon Stone on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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.
- 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 on Famous
- 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.
- There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.
- Benjamin Carson on Famous
- There is this power that comes with being famous.
- Rod Stewart on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.
- Rashida Jones on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
- Kim Kardashian on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
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