Famous Quotes

"It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous"

Ben Stiller, Comedian

"There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did"

William Scott

"I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous"

Alison Lohman, Actress

"I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous"

Danielle Steel, Novelist

"Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"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

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

Duke Ellington, Musician

"I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, "Hi Dave!""

David Zucker, Director

"Popstars really draws you in. It's fascinating. It's interesting to watch people thrown together in that kind of a situation. Even if the egos weren't involved and they weren't trying to be world famous. It's the Real World, only better"

Scott Patterson, Actor

"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

"Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"You're not famous until my mother has heard of you"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"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

"The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed"

Kate Moss, Model

"Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America"

John McCain, Politician

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

Leigh Hunt, Poet

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

Francis I

"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, Actor

"Right now I'm the most famous silent movie actress in the world and I want to keep that for me. So I hope there's not going to be any other silent movies"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"We played in Texas about a year ago, at Emo's, the famous country and western club in Austin. And I figured, well, if I'm finally gonna die onstage, that's where it's going to be!"

Alan Vega, Musician

"In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy"

Andrew Coyle Bradley, Judge

"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'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in making good music"

David Gilmour, Musician

"And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous"

Van Morrison, Musician

"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, Criminal

"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after"

Moon Unit Zappa, Musician

"The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"I don't have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force"

James D'arcy, Actor

"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"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, Musician

"I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave"

Elizabeth Hurley, Actress

"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"

Ian Hart, Actor

"We had such a wonderful set of circumstances in Wilmington. Yes, the four of us became famous literally overnight, but we were in a small town and we always knew when people were coming down. We always knew when to behave"

Katie Holmes, Actress

"I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go to America. But then I'll be competing with billions of actors who haven't got false teeth, and who are 25"

Ian Hart, Actor

"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

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