Famous Quotes

"But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"You can get awful famous in this country in seven days"

Gary Hart, Politician

"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized"

Gabrielle Reece, Athlete

"If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective"

Danny Bonaduce, Actor

"I definitely wanted to be an actor. I didn't want to be on TV, I didn't want to be famous, I didn't want to be anyone in particular; I just wanted to do it. I see young people now who look at magazines, or American Idol and their goal is to have that lifestyle - to have good handbags, or go out with cute guys from shows, or whatever. But I definitely wanted to be an actor"

Lauren Graham, Actress

"We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous"

Robert Patrick, Actor

"I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy"

Yves Saint Laurent, Designer

"I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert; he was like a second father"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life"

Haruki Murakami, Writer

"You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else"

Nikki Cox, Actress

"Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh"

Meg Cabot, Author

"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great"

Ray Charles, Musician

"For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it"

Michelle Pfeiffer, Actress

"You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"Jason Lee is the most famous actor from Hawaii I can think of"

Tia Carrere, Actress

"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned"

Richard Russo, Novelist

"Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'"

Michael N. Castle, Politician

"There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold"

Matt Damon, Actor

"My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater"

Shirley Knight, Actress

"Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world"

Martha Reeves, Musician

"I'd had people say, "You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again". But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment"

Matt Damon, Actor

"I can never really enjoy being famous"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one"

Sally Kirkland, Actress

"King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in"

Jamie Muir

"I'd definitely rather be rich than famous"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?"

Tom Sizemore, Actor

"It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous"

Marion Jones, Athlete

"For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are"

Ricki Lake, Entertainer

"My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame"

Joel McHale, Comedian

"Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out"

Vincent Schiavelli, Actor

"I will either be famous or infamous"

Otto Dix, Artist

"I do not like being famous. I like being normal"

Vince Gill, Musician

"While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"Of course, Hollywood is still making some excellent pictures which reflect the great artistry that made Hollywood famous throughout the world, but these films are exceptions, judging from box office returns and press reviews"

Pola Negri, Actress

"I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman"

James Ellroy, Writer

"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity"

William Hurt, Actor

"I got the famous Oprah hug!"

Taylor Lautner, Actor

"For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad"

Jeff Bridges, Actor

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