Famous Quotes

"The Band was always famous for its retirements; we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again"

Rick Danko, Musician

"In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band"

Neal Schon, Musician

"Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for"

Mary Lou Retton, Athlete

"But to this day I am convinced that the real reason we met was because Alexander is from Nebraska, and he was completely fascinated that I was about to go off and make a movie with Brando - perhaps the most famous Nebraskan of all"

Thomas Haden Church, Actor

"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"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"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, Athlete

"He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together"

Saffron Burrows, Actress

"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, Scientist

"I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone"

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"The Bronx is famous for two things. Hip-hop, and 26 world championships"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded"

Kristen Bell, Actress

"I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done"

Peter Cushing, Actor

"I was famous from birth"

Peter Fonda, Actor

"I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law"

Stephen Colbert, Comedian

"I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job"

Bill Murray, Actor

"I just want to be rich and famous"

Ian Hart, Actor

"I'd much rather be famous for being a fabulous bitch than being, She does that nice wife really well"

Christine Baranski, Actress

"You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi"

Marilu Henner, Actress

"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing"

Leigh Hunt, Poet

"Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared"

January Jones, Actress

"Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them"

Francis I

"I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not"

Catherine Deneuve, Actress

"Tom cruise, he's a lot more famous than me"

David Beckham, Athlete

"Its only when you are a great actor and are recognised for your good work that you become famous. Unless you are in the news for the wrong reasons!"

Christine Lahti, Actress

"I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting"

David McCallum, Actor

"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, Musician

"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

"You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous"

Adriana Lima, Model

"I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!"

Bruce Dickinson, Musician

"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, Athlete

"I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?"

Chris Rock, Comedian

"Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up"

Cat Deeley, Celebrity

"Sometimes I like to play the soundtracks to famous musicals so we can all sing along. South Pacific is one of my favorites. Our neighbors must hate us"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

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