Famous Quotes
- '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 on Famous
- A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe on Famous
- A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
- Van Morrison on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 Moretz on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.
- Michael Bolton on Famous
- 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.
- 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 on Famous
- Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.
- Annette Bening on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.
- Nicholas Hoult on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- All I say is that I don't go out with famous men.
- Samantha Mumba on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?
- Tom Sizemore on Famous
- Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
- Ilka Chase on Famous
- And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.
- Donna Leon on Famous
- And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
- Meg Whitman on Famous
- And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.
- Shaquille O'Neal on Famous
- And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.
- Damon Wayans on Famous
- And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.
- Tom Felton on Famous
- Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
- Fran Lebowitz on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
- Gwen Stefani on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
- Ernest Thompson Seton on Famous
- At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
- Phil Donahue on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.
- Dee Dee Myers on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'
- Rachel Weisz on Famous
- Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
- Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
- Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.
- Carnie Wilson on Famous
- Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
- Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion.
- Juliette Binoche on Famous
- Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.
- Robert Wyatt on Famous
- Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
- Peter Carey on Famous
- Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
- Chris Evert on Famous
- Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
- Fran Drescher on Famous
- Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.
- Cat Deeley on Famous
- Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.
- Dave Chappelle on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.
- William Hurt on Famous
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