Famous Quotes

"I feel very strong as an individual, but as a famous footballer I know I am prone to certain things. All the media have a continuous interest for me. It varies from once a year to every day interest"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky"

Graham Norton, Celebrity

"You know, I'm a television personality. It's not like I'm a famous hooker or something!"

Brett Somers, Actress

"When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood"

Pauly Shore, Comedian

"When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous"

Edward Furlong, Actor

"Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous"

George Thorogood, Musician

"I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say"

Richard Lewis, Comedian

"I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor!"

Lyle Lovett, Musician

"Face it, I didn't become famous until I took my clothes off"

Jude Law, Actor

"I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier"

Tony Levin, Musician

"But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom"

Rachel Griffiths, Actress

"To be famous and broke is hard"

David Spade, Actor

"Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent"

Kevin Bacon, Actor

"Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong"

Jet Li, Actor

"If it's not some daring, dangerous affair, it's just not interesting, or so it seems. So, here you have two people - a famous American iconic couple - who actually like each other sexually, in marriage. Imagine"

Shelley Long, Actress

"It's really easy to avoid the tabloids. You just live your life and don't hang out with famous people who are in the tabloids. Don't do anything controversial and be a normal person. Have friends. And get a job and keep working"

Amanda Seyfried, Actress

"In Germany I am not so famous"

Hans Berger, Scientist

"No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"I had to do this very aggressive, big score in a very short time, and knowing that in the beginning, middle, and end would be this very, very famous theme, but I still had to weave a score around it and make it work as a score was really challenging"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God"

Charles Williams, Editor

"Nothing in life prepares you to be famous"

Jeff Foxworthy, Comedian

"They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach"

Luigi Barzini, Journalist

"I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star"

Edgar Winter, Musician

"When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that"

Jill Scott, Musician

"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

"You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers"

Clive Anderson, Entertainer

"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

"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, Actor

"I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich"

Alan Alda, Actor

"It's not that I don't want to become famous or that I'm obsessed by my work as an actress, but it's all about not limiting myself, such as putting myself in a little jail that I can escape from"

Sarah Polley, Actress

"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s"

Dylan Moran, Comedian

"The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous"

Kelsey Grammer, Actor

"I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous"

Lefty Gomez, Athlete

"Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys"

Bert Campaneris, Athlete

"I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal"

Rupert Grint, Actor

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