Famous Quotes
- I mean I was famous for nothing.
- Rick Springfield on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I never pursued being 'famous.'
- Francesca Annis on Famous
- I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.
- Matthew Modine on Famous
- I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
- Patrick Rothfuss on Famous
- I never thought about being famous.
- Damon Wayans on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I never wanted to be famous.
- Dave Attell on Famous
- I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
- Ray Charles on Famous
- I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.
- Donna Leon on Famous
- I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
- Manolo Blahnik on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.
- Eva Herzigova on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.
- 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 on Famous
- I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.
- America Ferrera on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.
- Sinead O'Connor on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.
- Alberto Korda on Famous
- I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds - that he'd tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film.
- Toby Jones on Famous
- 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.
- Arthur Golden on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.
- Martin Yan on Famous
- I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.
- Cee Lo Green on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I think it's real easy to be famous these days it's not real easy to sustain success.
- Jerry Jeff Walker on Famous
- I think it's really important for celebrities to use their power of money and fame to get their voices out there. It's funny to me that we're expected to keep quiet just because of who we are. Why do I lose my right to speak my mind because I'm famous?
- Lisa Edelstein on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.
- Diane Keaton on Famous
- I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.
- Marilyn Monroe on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
- Jon Carroll on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.
- Alanis Morissette on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
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