- 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 on Famous
- Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.
- Mary Lou Retton on Famous
- Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Famous
- Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress - a famous actress - which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
- Meredith Baxter on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
- My buildings are more famous than me.
- Jean Nouvel on Famous
- My discrepancy with children in the industry is that they are made famous before they know who they are as human beings.
- Corey Feldman on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- 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 on Famous
- My hair was famous before I was.
- Christopher Walken on Famous
- My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.
- Andy Warhol on Famous
- My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.
- Martha Plimpton on Famous
- My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!
- Jennifer Ellison on Famous
- My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author 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 on Famous
- 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.
- My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.
- Wynonna Judd on Famous
- My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing.
- 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 on Famous
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