Famous Quotes

"Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer"

Juliette Binoche, Actress

"It's not my goal to be a famous actor"

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"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, Musician

"But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh"

Carol Burnett, Actress

"Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads"

John Grisham, Writer

"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"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, Writer

"I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool"

Bill O'Reilly, Journalist

"It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world"

Ron Silver, Actor

"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha"

Arthur Golden, Writer

"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"I was brought up with psychics and tarot cards. My mum was always told I was going to be in a boy band and be famous as a singer"

Lee Ryan, Musician

"In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness"

Norman O. Brown, Philosopher

"I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning"

Mira Sorvino, Actress

"I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part"

O. J. Simpson, Athlete

"Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing"

Macy Gray, Musician

"I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"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

"I want to be famous everywhere"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag"

Van Morrison, Musician

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

Nicholas Sparks, Author

"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, 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'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up"

James Woods, Actor

"I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path"

Matthew Modine, Actor

"We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

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