Famous Quotes: Timeless Wisdom from Renowned Personalities

"The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people"

Margot Kidder, Actress

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Architect

"Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective"

Paul Biya, Statesman

"To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons"

Susan Sontag, Author

"So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops"

Ed Smith

"In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country"

Nick Clooney, Politician

"Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos"

Chuck Zito, Celebrity

"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"

Christopher Hampton, Playwright

"Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"Our top story tonight: Famous TV dolphin flipper was arrested today on prostitution ring charges. He allegedly was seen transporting two 16 year olds across state line for immoral porpoises"

Colin Mochrie, Actor

"Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled"

Silvia Colloca, Actress

"On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people"

Cass Elliot, Musician

"Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right"

David Carradine, Actor

"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous"

Christian Bale, Actor

"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, Actress

"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, Entertainer

"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff"

Britney Spears, Musician

"Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young"

Duke Ellington, Musician

"There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous"

Tobey Maguire, Actor

"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, Writer

"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, 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 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, Clergyman

"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"Some very famous directors have started in the mail room, which is just getting inside the studio, getting to know people, getting to know the routine"

Kenneth Anger, Author

"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, Criminal

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