Famous Quotes
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.
- Barry Manilow on Famous
- They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.
- Sirhan Sirhan on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.
- Lillie Langtry on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- They were all famous and fantastic fellows.
- Peter Scott on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- To be famous and broke is hard.
- David Spade on Famous
- To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady.
- Albert Camus on Famous
- To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.
- Diablo Cody on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
- Christopher Hampton on Famous
- Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me.
- David Beckham on Famous
- Uncle Brett had a definite vision that he was after, I don't think having a famous father affected him much.
- Kim Weston on Famous
- Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them.
- Leona Lewis on Famous
- We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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!
- 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 on Famous
- We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.
- Robert Patrick on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- Well, I think a lot of people just want to be famous.
- Dan Fogler on Famous
- Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.
- Will Arnett on Famous
- What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.
- 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.
- 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 on Famous
- What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
- Jon Landau on Famous
- What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
- Narada Michael Walden on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
- Francis Ford Coppola on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.
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