1000 Best Famous Quotes

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress. Jane Siberry

There's a famous saying: 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.' I want to change it to 'Hell hath no fury like a nation scorned.' Adnan Sami

There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968. Walt Mossberg

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't. Herb Caen

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

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. Nat King Cole

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. Moliere

It's nice to have famous people love you. Millie Bobby Brown

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. Don Johnson

I've noticed that once you leave London you do kind of become a bit more famous. People in London are a bit too cool for school. It's not so unusual to see someone from London in the street. But outside of London people are a bit more excited to see you and come out and support you. David Walliams

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous. Cher

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers. Don Henley

I don't know what 'famous' is, really. Karl Pilkington

The office-as-playground trend was made famous by Google and has spread like an infection across the tech industry. Work can't just be work; work has to be fun. Daniel Lyons

I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person. Gillian Flynn

I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. Peter O'Toole

When you become famous at 19, it does a number in your head, so you find romance in the mundane - isn't it so great that a guy would pick me up at my house and take me to a restaurant? Juliette Lewis

Fame in itself is, you know... It involves a whole discussion on just that word, 'fame.' It's a power; it's another degree of power, to be famous. I think it's obvious: you have more influence the more well-known you are. And, hopefully, it's righteously used. Harry Dean Stanton

I'd rather be the protector than the protected. I'm naturally the protector - being a mother and having a famous family. You have to navigate when it's right to protect. Solange Knowles

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame. Isaac Hanson

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly personal - like Charlie Sheen. I do a mix of observations and updates. Rob Lowe

I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book. Ian Mckellen

There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking for money. But being famous, that's a 24 hour job right there. Bill Murray

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

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. Arthur Schopenhauer

Famous people are deceptive. Deep down, they're just regular people. Like Larry King. We've been friends for forty years. He's one of the few guys I know who's really famous. One minute he's talking to the president on his cell phone, and then the next minute he's saying to me, 'Do you think we ought to give the waiter another dollar?' Don Rickles

Whenever someone says to my mum: 'How's your son doing?' she says: 'Which one?' If you're a parent, you're not going to go: 'Oh I'll concentrate on the famous one.' Martin Freeman

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. Shaquille O'Neal

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it. A. R. Rahman

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

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people. Charlie Kaufman

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer. Walter Cronkite

What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognise their names and faces but know almost nothing else about them? Alan Alda

I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen. Gabriel Iglesias

The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly. Malcolm Gladwell

When I was 24, I was full of life. I was that ham who wanted to be famous, a movie star, all that stuff. I think it's cool. But it was not what I was searching for, really. It was more a delusion. Jean-Claude Van Damme

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest. Damien Rice

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous. Katherine Jenkins

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. Richard Flanagan

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions. C. Wright Mills


The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble. Harry Connick, Jr.

It's difficult for me to trust a woman. Men are attracted to beautiful women. Women are attracted to men who offer security - financial security. And if you have money and you're famous, women find that sexy. Curtis Jackson

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being. Michael Korda

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own. Maisie Williams

Henry Miller is a famous writer whose work has fallen out of fashion, but I strongly recommend that readers who don't know his work pick up a book and experience this writer's zealous, crazy, inventive, funny, sexy, often delirious prose. Siri Hustvedt

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do. Matthew McConaughey

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

The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.' Dan Pfeiffer

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

Sometimes people offer you plays, they offer you parts, but they only offer it because I'm famous. Chris Rock

It's part of the celebrity process but my life has never been as interesting or as wild as what's been printed about me. Winona Ryder

I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.' Mattie Stepanek

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. Henry Kissinger

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. Mindy Kaling

When you become a celebrity, the world owns you and your image. Megan Fox

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'? Terry Pratchett

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow. Michael Specter

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. Maureen Dowd

I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it. Russell Crowe

If you wanna be famous, then it's okay if the music is fake, because fame isn't real. Josh Homme

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936. Gore Vidal

Brooklyn was a famous team. I wanted to play for the Dodgers. Roberto Clemente

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

What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property. Winona Ryder

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. Kate McKinnon

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small. Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Pleasure without God, without the sacred boundaries, will actually leave you emptier than before. And this is biblical truth, this is experiential truth. The loneliest people in the world are amongst the wealthiest and most famous who found no boundaries within which to live. That is a fact I've seen again and again. Ravi Zacharias

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous. David Walliams

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.' Chloe Grace Moretz

I'll never forget one of those things that my father said to me. My father said: 'You know what? We have had so many amazingly positive experiences that we would have never had because you're famous. We can stand to have a couple negatives ones, too.' Rob Lowe

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous. CeeLo Green

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay. Bette Davis

I got the famous Oprah hug! Taylor Lautner

I didn't live the lifestyle of the rich and famous. My diapers were nappy cloth. I didn't live in a big house. Rohan Marley

I was famous overnight. I went from nowhere to being really big. Sting

You don't knock television, even if you don't always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous. Ruth Rendell

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people. Sophia Myles

When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous. Katie Price

Luckily, I don't think that I'm too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it's easy to see that it's not a great thing to have. Tig Notaro

They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous. Lillie Langtry

When you work with actors, what you're hoping to absorb is good ways to be an actor as opposed to how to handle being famous. Domhnall Gleeson

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England. Steve Coogan

I have a show on MTV called 'Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous.' I think that's a secret to a vast majority of America. Bo Burnham

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for. Mary Lou Retton

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer. Jennifer Hudson

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. Donna Leon

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. Douglas Coupland

There's this famous observation that I totally believe: Great startup ideas are the ones that lie in the intersection of the Venn diagram of 'is a good idea' and 'looks like a bad idea.' So you want most people to think it's a bad idea and thus not compete with you until you get giant. But for it to secretly be good. Sam Altman


A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun. Donna Leon

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them. Kristen Stewart

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about. Diego Luna

There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em. Andie MacDowell

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing. Anton du Beke

Famous pivot stories are often failures but you don't need to fail before you pivot. All a pivot is is a change is strategy without a change in vision. Whenever entrepreneurs see a new way to achieve their vision - a way to be more successful - they have to remain nimble enough to take it. Eric Ries

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world. John Paul DeJoria

I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious. Bo Burnham

Air travelers, of course, are famous for their hubris. They carry on too many bags and use the restroom when the seat-belt sign is on. Meghan Daum

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. David Cassidy

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too. Jesse Eisenberg

There is a famous saying: 'It's hard to be a Jew.' It's also hard to be a Palestinian. I know that. Ariel Sharon

It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew who I was. I was going to be famous if it killed me. Chuck Berry

Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement. Michael Korda

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes. Peter Falk

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

I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet. America Ferrera

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

If you are famous, single, and actually want to build a relationship that works, don't look to date your co-stars... just ask them to set you up with their agent. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather. Ilka Chase

One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets. Jo Brand

One of the top comments I get from people is, 'Oh my God, you're like a regular person!' That's kind of a bizarre thing to live with. I know a lot of famous people, and their lives may not be regular, but they are regular people. Kevin Bacon

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. Helmut Newton

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show. John Tesh

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. Robert South

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

I didn't know what to expect from a famous movie star; maybe that he'd be sort of stuck-up, you know. But not Gary Cooper. He horsed around so much... that I had a hard time painting him. Norman Rockwell

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous. Tony Hawk

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel. Claire Tomalin

Everybody wanted me to be rich and famous on my art. And I said no to all the commercials and all the seedy offers. Philippe Petit

On an emotional level, success in America would be terrible for me; it would be insane. I really, seriously, never want to be famous here. Robbie Williams

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures. Amanda de Cadenet

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person. Andy Warhol

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous. Jodie Foster

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. Noel Gallagher

I don't like a girl on social media, when you have an open inbox, answering questions from dudes left and right every day. What's the point? It's like having your number all out. Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. Meek Mill

Look at the news stand, you know? I mean, it's a cacophony of famous people or people who want to be famous with blurbs all around it, and it's supposed to be, you know, that's supposed to be creativity in journalism. My God, it's unbelievable. It's shocking. George Lois

Indian paper is famous, Egyptian papyrus, Chinese paper... every country has used this natural material. But the problem is it's going to run out because it's very difficult work. Issey Miyake

I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting. Irvine Welsh

The day before I was famous in Denmark, nobody looked my way. The day after, everybody wanted to talk to me. Mads Mikkelsen

I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign. Nate Berkus

Ever since Obama's election team and media thugs made me famous for asking a simple question in 2008, I've had more than my share of death threats by people who are by definition at least a little crazy. Joe Wurzelbacher

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry. Herschel Walker

I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share. Rosie O'Donnell

To play anybody real and famous is very scary. Vanessa Kirby

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom. Roberto Cavalli

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. James Thurber

There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get. Chris Rock

I don't really consider myself to be famous. Victoria Justice

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it. David Cassidy

I love the urban comedies, because they keep you famous, keep you having fun, and keep you in love with the business. Those are my roots. I'll always love doing those. Terry Crews

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

I actually don't know anyone who wants to be famous for fame's sake, at least not anyone I respect. But you need to have a certain amount of power in order to be able to do what you want. Michael Ian Black


I bemoan the fact that all my famous friends have places in St. Bart's and I have to go to Montauk. Rufus Wainwright

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid. George Clooney

I walk the streets, take the train, it's real simple. Some actors create their own mythology: 'Oh, I'm so famous I can't go places, because I created this mythology that I'm so famous I can't go places.' Samuel L. Jackson

After becoming famous, I've realised how overrated fame is. It gets in the way of normal life. Ranveer Singh

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled. Lupita Nyong'o

I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn. Marcia Clark

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt

Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me. Kate Winslet

The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy. Oliver North

There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move. Miranda Otto

The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous. Armaan Malik

I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they have sunglasses and hats on and grow out beards thinking that they're fooling people. Dude, you're not fooling anyone: you look just like you. Sterling K. Brown

I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racist to me. So I'd be walking down the street, and someone would be, like, 'Hey, look at this Kumail Nanjiani.' Kumail Nanjiani

I love being famous. It's almost like being white. Chris Rock

My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the end of the day, cool. Sofia Richie

You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me. Orlando Bloom

With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation. Erin O'Connor

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own. Norman Wisdom

I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf. Ian Mckellen

A while ago I said that, 'You know, I like a guy - he doesn't have to be all rich and famous - he can be normal.' And I remember I was walking in the mall, and this guy was like, 'Tyra, I'm normal. I live with my mama. I ain't got a car and I ain't got a job! I'm real normal.' And I'm like, 'That's not normal - that's a loser!' Tyra Banks

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work. David Cassidy

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks. Cameron Russell

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck. Whoopi Goldberg

When you look at Michael Jackson, there's nobody who loves him in that family, nobody. If they did, they'd tell him he didn't have to do all that in order to be famous. All he has to do is keep doing his music and be himself. Michael's been a little touched for about 20 years, but somebody needs to pull him aside and tell him they love him. Jamie Foxx

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

I've never really cared if I was famous for my music. It was just something I had to do. Juliette Lewis

Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better. Melissa McCarthy

It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn't get an easy ride at the beginning. Stella McCartney

I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about. Brad D. Smith

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life. Janet Jackson

I think Dutch people are very sober. I don't know if it's the right word. Like, you have the most famous person walk by some Dutch people, and they're like, 'Oh, hello.' And they maybe take a photo, but most of the time, they'll respect you and leave you alone. And if you go to some other countries they will literally mob you, go crazy. Martin Garrix

My mum had a massive influence on me, not just in what she wore and how she looked, but in her spirit. She was married to one of the most famous men in the world, and she didn't wear any makeup, ever. I mean, have you ever seen the wife of a man like that rock up with no makeup on? Because I haven't since. Stella McCartney

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem. Shirley MacLaine

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' Francis Ford Coppola

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

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it. Jarvis Cocker

Wherever I go, there's always a child, an old woman, that comes to me and wants to meet me. Not because I am famous but because they suffered with my family. Elian Gonzalez

You've got certain guys that just want to be famous and then you've got the real musicians that just love playing music. Zakk Wylde

I want to become more famous, even more famous. Yayoi Kusama

The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they're famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous. Bo Burnham

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. Carol Burnett

In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter. Stephen Colbert

Only traumatised people want to be famous. Alanis Morissette

We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing. Ellen Pompeo

Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also spent his time in public service, not in jail, and his passing was marked by world-wide encomiums. He ended his days as a celebrated explorer rather than a royal inconvenience. Seth Shostak

I've had offers that could've made me much richer and much more famous than I am. Harry Dean Stanton

The more they applaud, the bigger your salary will be. Anna Held

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

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it. Michael Shermer

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out. Jarvis Cocker

My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple's double - she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the '20s, '30s and '40s in the kitchen for my grandmother. Gloria Estefan

I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. Princess Margaret

To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It's not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It's about really paying your dues. It's people I'm fans of and want to help in the business. Zac Brown

It took being famous to make me cool, which, by the way, I never forgot. Rob Lowe

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to. Louis C. K.

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering. John le Carre

I became famous, I think, really because of the interpretation of other people's songs, way back when, and that's what I enjoy the most. And I'm a lazy bugger. Rod Stewart


I don't think I'd want to be a comedian today if I saw it on the telly. I wouldn't think it was a thing for weirdoes and drop-outs; I'd think it was a thing for squares who wanted to be famous. Stewart Lee

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check. Charles Barkley

I got a little bit famous. I didn't like it. Sia

Warren Buffett is famous for talking about the 'intrinsic value' of stocks. But while many people parrot this phrase, few know what it really means. Robert Kiyosaki

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

I did not want to write one of those sequels that famous first-book authors get into where everybody says, 'Oh yeah.' Robert M. Pirsig

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere. Francesca Annis

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

I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life. Rik Mayall

A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly. Terry Wogan

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings. Robert Dallek

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star. Ruth Negga

When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children. Katherine Ryan

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. Edmund Burke

If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye. Katherine Waterston

Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them. Alanis Morissette

Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently. Matt Damon

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.' Amanda de Cadenet

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. George Will

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do. Johnny Mathis

I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it. Melvyn Bragg

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories. Carrie Coon

The obviously inexperienced pilot is the game the scientific air-fighter goes after, and the majority of victories are won that way. But, on the other hand, it is the novice usually who gets the famous ace by doing at some moment the unexpected thing. Eddie Rickenbacker

I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing. Sarah Hyland

I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life. Sinead O'Connor

I have only one ambition, which is to be famous. Robbie Williams

I'm somebody who likes to gravitate toward people who aren't necessarily famous. Brad Paisley

If you want to be famous because you do something well or badly, be it singing while fat or hitting balls of various shapes and hues, you have to be prepared to divulge. We live in the age of the chronic overshare. Alexandra Petri

I've never changed the way I live. I still walk the streets; I don't give a damn. And everyone's very nice to me. But this new idea of being famous for no reason at all? I can't actually get my head round it. John Hurt

I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and that's wrestling, and that's what I love. AJ Lee

It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls. Mike Posner

Ibiza is a popular vacation place for a lot of the players in Spain. If you go in the summer, there are some of the world's most famous movie and music stars, so nobody cares about soccer players. Xavi

It was never in my mind to be famous. Francois Nars

You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off. Ansel Elgort

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world. Jesse Owens

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over. Diablo Cody

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous. Jenny Slate

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous. Walt Disney

I am still moved by passages of Marx: the 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right,' for example, where, after the famous line about religion being 'the opium of the people,' he goes on to call it 'the heart of a heartless world.' Geoff Dyer

Normal is such a hard word to use, because everyone's idea of normal is different. Real is what the word is. I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life. Sarah Michelle Gellar

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance. Al Goldstein

I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory. Denis Leary

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed. Jay-Z

When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance. Beth Ditto

I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law. Stephen Colbert


The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine. Lily James

Hollywood's famous for putting you in a box. Mickey Rourke

For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of windows and remember that even those famous late starters Joseph Conrad and George Eliot had started by the age I was now. Howard Jacobson

My favorite thing about being famous... it's not really as big of a deal as everybody says it is. Being on the road is tough, doing interviews, and all the stuff. It's still pretty tough. Aaron Carter

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about. Ed Sheeran

It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood? Eddie Van Halen

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy. Theresa Rebeck

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family. Rafael Nadal

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy. Brigitte Bardot

Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth. Jarvis Cocker

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

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age. Gaby Hoffmann

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement. Adam McKay

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

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

I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi Murakami to do a ten-foot joint for me. It's almost like the explosion in Hiroshima with his famous skeleton head. There's a wall above my fireplace reserved for it. Jay-Z

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning. Ben Carson

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics. William Godwin

Fame, I have already. Now I need the money. Wilhelm Steinitz

The only reason I became the singer in the band is because I sang the best. It wasn't out of some desire to be a star or be a famous singer. It's not like I love interviews. Adam Levine

I used to be like everyone else and think the Kardashians are just famous for being famous. But I've been really impressed with how supportive Kim Kardashian has been of Caitlyn Jenner. Anne Hathaway

The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss. Madeleine M. Kunin

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. Marilyn vos Savant

Sometimes I get a little exhausted by shows or movies that are constantly throwing famous people on. And I find it so much more exciting to not have that when I'm watching something. I think it allows you to get more lost in something and also to bring more attention to more unknown or less recognizable people. Tig Notaro

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

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.' Jason Reitman

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight. Mario Testino

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone. Mike Posner

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. Lee Daniels

When I was a kid, I would come home from school, and mymomwould buy the industrial-size Famous Amos cookies or Chips Ahoy when I was lucky. And I would sit in front of the TV set with a glass of milk... and I would dump cookies in there, smash them with my spoon, and eat cookies and milk with a spoon watching 'The Dukes of Hazzard.' Johnny Iuzzini

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it. Matthew Perry

My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea. Alexa Ray Joel

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity. Bob Saget

Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool. Tyga

It may sound strange to say it of someone so famous, but I think Leonardo DiCaprio is underrated, particularly from an awards perspective. He is a very versatile actor. He started very young, and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' is one of my favourite films. Will Poulter


The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. Jesse Eisenberg

The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show. Casey Kasem

I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don't have anyone to look up to. I mean, it's weird, but if I just hid out and didn't let myself be known, who would they look up to instead, you know? Bethany Hamilton

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose. Diablo Cody

My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him. Kevin Bacon

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere. Dane Cook

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous. Frank Ocean

Tom Cruise, he's a lot more famous than me. David Beckham

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW. Dido Armstrong

Famous people come up to me, but I don't know who they are because my sight is so bad. It's always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don't have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room. Helena Bonham Carter

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents. Adele

I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. Liev Schreiber

The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon - there are more Muhammads than anything else. When I joined the Nation of Islam and became a Muslim, they gave me the most famous name because I was the champ. Muhammad Ali

I love being famous - it's phenomenal. Dave Chappelle

The sound of my voice is more famous than me. Jimmy Iovine

If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube,' then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul. Trisha Yearwood

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart. Dolly Parton

The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn't really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that. Marco Rubio

I never pursued being 'famous.' Francesca Annis

Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour. Yotam Ottolenghi

When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course. Nadia Comaneci

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on. Bo Burnham

I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous. John Malkovich

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy. Brett Favre

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and which just Engels. Martin Jacques

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

Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent. Peter Sis

It's hard for me to just say, 'Wow, this is amazing - I'm famous. I'm living the dream.' I sit there and think, 'I'm scared - this can go away tomorrow.' My dad always says that I'm a tortured soul because I'm never pleased; I never feel like I deserve what I've achieved. Shawn Mendes

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with. Ruth Negga

Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything. Nick Carter

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. Christian Bale

I first became interested in 'great moments' when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series. Fred Willard

Some people can't sing - like honestly - but they're famous anyway, and they might be famous for being an artist, which is completely different from being a singer. Zara Larsson

I had my Aunt Rosie, who was famous and then not, so I got a lesson in fame early on. And I understood how little it has to do with you. And also how you could use it. George Clooney

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices. Hedy Lamarr

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part. Eddie Van Halen

Everywhere you look, especially on TV, someone is promising to make you rich and famous. Diego Luna

I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty. Dana Carvey

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek. Aidan Quinn

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

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

Show me an actor who doesn't want to be famous, and I'll show you a liar. Later, you realise that there's more to it than just the acquisition of fame, and money and girls. But that is what drives them and was what drove me, initially. Kevin Bacon

I've known Emeril for more than 20 years from when I featured him on 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous' from his days at Commander's Palace in New Orleans and from when I helped start the Food Network where he subsequently hosted an amazing 2,000-plus shows. Robin Leach

Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history. Monica Crowley

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. Sia

At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that. Amanda de Cadenet

You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy. Maisie Williams

I've never done this from a standpoint of, 'I want to be famous.' I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. Ne-Yo

'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. Peter Jackson

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself. Kristen Stewart


If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous. Sia

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

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. Ray Charles

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. Ambrose Bierce

I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known. Carlene Carter

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. John Mayer

Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable. Kate Moss

'The Admirable Crichton' is probably Barrie's most famous work after 'Peter Pan', nearly a pendant to that classic. Michael Dirda

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that. Jeff Bridges

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape. Kate Winslet

The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provoke to get a reaction. Robin Williams

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in. Matthew Desmond

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't. Christian Slater

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool. Bill O'Reilly

Sometimes I dream to be alone and that nobody would talk to me. But I understand that football is really important and that everybody watches it. When you're famous, you have to do photos or autographs, especially for the kids. Mario Balotelli

If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse. John Gurdon

I'm actually a very private person. Sometimes I'm in denial that I'm really famous. Britney Spears

Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it's just an illusion. Juliette Binoche

Don't call me famous, but it's hard to be out with my friends now. Katie Taylor

I know I am in a band that is famous, and my private life is famous. I get it, and it's fine. Even when I grew up in a village, people wanted to know who was going to the dance with whom, and I understand, but I think if I engage with it too much, it won't be that healthy. Chris Martin

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom. Jewel

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses... that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away. John Frusciante

I never wanted to be a celebrity; I never wanted to be famous. And in my daily life, I work really hard to not trade on it in any way. Sarah Jessica Parker

That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck? Garry Shandling

The true fans were capable of not only painting their cars and homes their team colors, but also naming family pets and offspring after famous NFL all-stars. Burgess Owens

I have some idea of the pressure of finding your own identity with a famous father. Michael Douglas

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston. Dorothy Hamill

When I was 20, I wanted to be famous and win a Grammy and have people respect and love me. Andra Day

I've played with some very famous bandits in my time on the celebrity golf circuit. Jasper Carrott

I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses in your neurons. And I found that I didn't believe that. But what the emotions really are, I don't have an alternative theory. Tom Stoppard

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural. Olivia De Havilland

I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me. Haile Gebrselassie

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off. Kevin Hart

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room. Sharon Stone

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. Debbie Macomber

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was. Sarah McLachlan

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith. Maeve Binchy

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be. Eddie Van Halen

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. Pericles

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

I didn't even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn't say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought. Marina and the Diamonds

I wasn't going off to New York to be more famous than my father, but in retrospect, that certainly was driving me. He was famous in Philadelphia, but it was also really important to him to be famous. And to a certain extent, I got some of that, even though there were parts of it that horrified me. Kevin Bacon

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

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

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. Voltaire

The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. Ian Mckellen

I worked at a hot dog place, a bagel place, the Jersey Store and the hottest fashion joint around. I was getting too famous to work there anymore. I was almost showing up as a joke. I made $2,000 on my show the previous night and I'm going to go shopping during my five-hour shift. Wale

I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet. Carey Mulligan

We all have Tumblr, and we all have Instagram and everything. People care so much about it because, now, any random can be famous on the Internet if their world looks good on Tumblr. And so everyone at high school strives for this kind of aesthetic correctness. Lorde

I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was. Robert Smith


While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control. Keri Russell

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous. Noomi Rapace

You can find love when you are famous if you are the same person you were before you were famous. Tamar Braxton

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time. Chloe Grace Moretz

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'. Michael Palin

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound. David Lee Roth

What I do is what I like; if I'm not as famous as I'd like to be, I've done it to myself. Blake Shelton

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money. Russell Brand

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. Tom Felton

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents. Frances Bean Cobain

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. Kristin Scott Thomas

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius

How did females become 'guys?' How did everyone become 'guys?' Remember, too, that a male guy was something of a scoundrel. And a wise guy was a fresh kid, a whippersnapper. In its most other famous evocation, men in Brooklyn said 'youse guys.' Damon Runyon referred to hustlers, gamblers, and other nefarious types as guys. Frank Deford

When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here. Andrea Hirata

Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?' Bob Newhart

I am not a famous person at home - I'm just a guy here. I'm a father, I'm a companion, I'm a human being. I am not a public figure in my house; I am not a celebrity. I am not a famous person to myself - I am just a guy. William Hurt

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be. Matthew Perry

I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really. Gareth Bale

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour. Lillian Hellman

Bill Cosby is a famous black guy who has a bully pulpit the size of the world; it's global. He puts his colossal foot on the vulnerable necks of poor people, and as a result of that, we don't have a balanced conversation. Michael Eric Dyson

I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet. David Henry Hwang

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me. Chelsea Handler

A famous love story is hard to maintain when you both live in the spotlight. Lauren Bacall

If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing. Zooey Deschanel

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes. Vivienne Westwood

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging. David Oyelowo

I will either be famous or infamous. Otto Dix

I'm focused on the next generation, because I think it's very hard to break the habit of adults who've got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It's very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious. Alice Waters

I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother. I have the responsibility and the passion to help out and do whatever I can. Peng Liyuan

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen

Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy. Kate McKinnon

I like being famous when it's convenient for me and completely anonymous when it's not. Catherine Deneuve

Even as a kid, I never wanted to be famous; I wanted to be good. Neil Peart

In terms of being a famous person, it hasn't changed anything. It's not important for me. Lizzie Armitstead

The more famous you become, the less people will tell you your faults. Paloma Picasso

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus. Charles B. Rangel

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli. Hugh Jackman

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too. P. J. O'Rourke

One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish. Bill O'Reilly

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

Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everything about his face getting burned and scarred in the military and how that mutilation led him to become such a famous 'heavy' in films. I prayed for good scars of my own. Not just acne scars. Chuck Palahniuk

I want people to know me through the movies I do. I want to be judged on that. If you start becoming famous for your personal life, that's when your career goes away. Megan Fox

My goal was just to work regularly. I didn't ever expect to be rich or famous. I wanted to be a working character actor. Harrison Ford

We don't feel like we're famous. We just feel like we're doing what we love. Sasha Banks

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars. Pierce Brosnan

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish. Michael Korda

I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.' Sam Worthington

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty. Rashida Jones

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it. James Marsh

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous. Sia

The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me. Seth Rogen

The world's most famous and popular language is music. Psy

Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different. Patty Jenkins

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. Margaret Heffernan

A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector? David Icke

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous. Rebecca Hall

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

In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain. Walter Cronkite

I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy. Amber Rose

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

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. William Penn

I'm always so amazed by which performances work really, really well and which ones don't. But I think it's just mostly, 'She's Out Of My League,' so many people saw that movie on DVD and on the plane. Just millions of people saw that movie. That's the reason I'm somewhat famous. T. J. Miller

On the Italian side, we can trace the family back 2,000 years. I have a cousin in Rome, a famous archaeologist, Count Andrea Carandini, who was in Lombardy and came across some pottery with the original name of the family, Carandinus, painted on it. Christopher Lee


I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous. Kendra Wilkinson

It took me a long time to realize you don't choose what you're famous for. D. B. Sweeney

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one's landlady. Albert Camus

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.' Maureen Dowd

The worst thing about being famous is the invasion of your privacy. Justin Timberlake

There is this power that comes with being famous. Rod Stewart

Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us. Nicolas Chamfort

It's hard to say I don't like being famous, but how I feel is that I don't see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me. Anthony Joshua

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous. Dave Chappelle

All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory. F. Sionil Jose

People are getting famous now for serving food out of a truck, or for, well, pork buns. I don't know if I'm really pleased to be a part of that. I'm somewhat terrified of what the future holds, especially in America. David Chang

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30. John Cusack

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

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous. Robin Wright

I've watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it's because they tend to believe all the hype that's out there. I don't think there's that much hype about me. Jane Goodall

Nobody prepares you for what happens when you get famous, and I didn't handle it well. Chevy Chase

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it. Loni Love

I love what I do for a living, but the other side, that aspect of being famous or a celebrity's got zero interest to me. Jeffrey Dean Morgan

If you are famous, you should find someone who understands your profession but doesn't do it. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly. Malcolm Gladwell

I don't want to be famous or recognizable. I don't want to be critiqued about the way that I look on the Internet... I've been writing pop songs for pop stars for a couple years and see what their lives are like, and that's just not something I want. Sia

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

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt. Judy Sheindlin

Who you are as a person will only be amplified once you are 'famous,' so if you had a good heart, then I would imagine you'll have the same good heart but the means to do even more with it. Meghan Markle

I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person. Ravi Shankar

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. Napoleon Bonaparte

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them. David Bowie

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!' Bonnie Hunt

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear. Al Pacino

I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.' Carrie Fisher

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence. Emir Kusturica

I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people. Diane Kruger

Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid. Donatella Versace

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

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else. Alan Bennett

It doesn't matter what famous person I've come across in the street, I don't think I've ever shouted. Lewis Hamilton

I don't think you can decide how famous or not you become. Rupert Friend

Imagine if baseball were taught the way sciencee is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school. Alison Gopnik

I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that. Kate Winslet

I am not famous at all. Sam Taylor-Johnson

You know, one of the biggest thrills I have is when famous people recognize me from Taxi. Marilu Henner

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. Moses Mendelssohn

It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family. Annette Bening

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too. Jack Kerouac

This whole celebrity racket, it's not really my bag. I don't really do that stuff, and I am not looking to get famous myself. I would love it if my characters get famous, my work was well known and appreciated. But I'm an actor, not a spokes model or a celebrity or whatever that is. I don't know how to be that. John C. Reilly

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage. Beyonce Knowles

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. Ellen Burstyn

When you're poor, you are invisible. Every poor person will tell you nobody sees you. So being famous was me just wanting to be seen. Viola Davis

Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be. Jessica Alba

Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way. David Hasselhoff

I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities. Noomi Rapace

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it. Fran Drescher

I wanted to go hide. I wasn't looking to be more famous, I'm famous enough. Howard Stern

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

When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it! Agnetha Faltskog

I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys. Kazuo Ishiguro

In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Andy Warhol

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

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase. Ja Rule

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

Our country was not built to support blood dynasties or to elevate the rich and famous to a higher ethical or constitutional plain. Andrew Breitbart

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined. Wesley Snipes

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

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know? Chris Rock

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

The caricature of sciencee is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead. Neil deGrasse Tyson


Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous. Lady Gaga

Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act. Dennis Quaid

It sounds really cheesy, but I've just really been so focused on making sure that I am nice to everyone that I work with and making the effort to get to know the people on set, whether it's the catering crew or the famous photographer. Gigi Hadid

Having bodyguards is just part of being famous, I think. Dolph Lundgren

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70. Pharrell Williams

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries, too. Wright lived into his 90s, and one of his most famous buildings, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox. Jane Smiley

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

I love singing - singing is what I'm famous for doing. Now it's turned into things I am famous for doing - like having rows with my mum or about my boyfriend, so it does get irritating. Charlotte Church

A lot of producers get famous because they decide to be superstars for their own reasons, but I'm inspired by Timbaland and Pharrell and Swizz Beatz 'cause they're doing things that are so different. I like how they're introducing ideas I never would have thought of. Diplo

I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times. Emma Watson

I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can. Jay-Z

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job. Bill Murray

Pirates almost never sailed with women. Just four or five are known to have worked as pirates during the Golden Age. Two of them - Mary Read and Anne Bonny - became famous, dressing as men and fighting alongside one of the most celebrated of all pirate captains, 'Calico' Jack Rackham. Robert Kurson

I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots. Seth Rogen

I would have changed my last name if being famous were my goal. Zach Galifianakis

Fame is the thirst of youth. Lord Byron

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you. Bono

My great-grandmother was born in London, the daughter of a Brixton coachman, and became the most famous singer in Australia. Her name was Marie Carandini, Madame Carandini. Christopher Lee

A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. Daniel J. Boorstin

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. Kinky Friedman

Fame necessarily isn't really tied to success at all. Fame is just being recognized for doing what you do, whether it's good or bad. Osama bin Laden was famous. Big Sean

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation. Frank Ocean

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately. Elisha Cuthbert

I think everybody has different priorities in their life. People live their lives differently. People become famous through all sorts of different reasons... some of it through art and some of it through just wanting to be famous. And I think how that all starts tends to reflect how you live your life daily. Keith Urban

The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I'm busier than ever and it's led to new opportunities. But I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing. Anton du Beke

For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005. Jameela Jamil

Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries. Stephen Hawking

I've always strived to be successful, not famous. Taylor Swift

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

I wanted to be successful, not famous. George Harrison

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

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast. John Hurt

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse. Charlotte Dujardin

Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy? Sherry Stringfield

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know. Brad Paisley

My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to win Oscars. In fact, I believe I accepted the Oscar as a ketchup bottle many a time in front of my mother in the kitchen. 'I'd like to thank the Academy,' I said with a ketchup bottle. Kevin Spacey

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches. Andy Warhol

Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try and avoid making eye contact with anyone. It was freaky, and it just happened overnight. I couldn't handle it. Alison Moyet

I was in a number of school plays, one in particular, when I was 13 or 14, entitled 'Illusions.' It was put together by one of the teachers, and was about famous historical figures. I had to do the Martin Luther King 'I have a dream' speech, and some black women in the audience were clapping and crying and whooping. David Harewood

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?' Peyton Manning

I've been famous my entire life; I don't know any other way. Cher

I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.' Nick Kroll

I'm coming out with a wine... I'm actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. I'm also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge. NeNe Leakes

I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous. Jeremy Renner

'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the auditorium is underlighted and clouded with fetid cigar smoke, which was why the famous picture of a snarling Ali standing over Liston was so dramatic; indoor arenas are now bright enough to be spotted from Alpha Centauri. Elvis Mitchell

Everyone wants to be famous; so do I. But I cannot lose sleep over it. Randeep Hooda

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

Most famous stage actors tactfully fade away. Robert Gottlieb

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing. T-Pain

Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary sciencee, by the literatures of antiquity. Marilynne Robinson

Many incredible artists die before they were famous. Yoko Ono

You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over. Louis Theroux

I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling. Jack Horner

I hear the way people talk about the children of famous people. They're not treated very well. The presumptions are usually quite awful. So I tried to establish myself with a couple of movies. After 'Juno' I thought: 'I think I've defined myself enough as my own director that I'd love to work with my father.' Jason Reitman

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. Mickey Spillane


I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says. Jack Hanna

When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids. George A. Romero

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more. Eva Herzigova

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two. Emma Thompson

I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell! Rachel Nichols

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work. Gyorgy Ligeti

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

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. Peter Carey

I'm way too famous and rich to be on a dating app, but if I get very desperate by the time I'm 60, I'll go on Tinder. Or I'll go on 'Millionaire Matchmaker'; I'll call Patti Stanger. Lisa Lampanelli

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's no class to adjust to being less famous, and you don't think you have to worry about it. But you do. Carrie Fisher

I'm not just looking to be famous and attach myself to famous names. I want to make history in the business in terms of creativity. Labrinth

Life is going to happen to you no matter what weight you are, no matter how famous you are, no matter how much money you have in the bank. No one gets a free pass. Amanda de Cadenet

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

I'm an active participation guy. No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time. Bill Goldberg

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

What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments, surrounded by other tourists? To eat unfamiliar food chosen from unintelligible menus? To earn frequent-flier miles? No. It's to glimpse what life is like somewhere else. Chris Pavone

I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world. Marina and the Diamonds

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life. Sia

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.' Yo-Yo Ma

Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like. Jennifer Coolidge

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate. Emily Dickinson

I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.' Trisha Yearwood

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for. Millard Drexler

Of course the rich and famous tend to have more going on in their lives than ordinary people, but they aren't always willing to tell the interesting bits. Michael Korda

Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp. Gregg Harper

It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well. Randy Newman

Even though I am fortunate to have certain luxuries, sometimes, I am even amazed by what people with money have and do. I want to remind people that just because you might be rich and famous, it doesn't mean you have to take yourself too seriously. Nick Cannon

I never thought about being famous. Damon Wayans

Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous. Gaby Hoffmann

I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people. Percy Sledge

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models. Wale

When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known. Ruth Bernhard

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time. Cyndi Lauper

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. Saul Leiter

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise. Joseph B. Wirthlin

My ultimate dream is to become a famous star because I love to sing. Lucy Hale

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns. Lawrence Welk

I don't want to become a star. I never wished to become an actor, even when I am here. When you decide to become an actor, you've to choose why you're doing it. Are you doing it to become an actor or because you want to be famous? I am doing it because I love being in front of the camera. Disha Patani

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

Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes. Denis Leary

It doesn't matter if you're famous or infamous. All that matters is you're a celebrity. Willie Geist

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. Morrissey

I don't have any expectations as an actor, and being rich and famous is not my driving force. James D'arcy

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for. Rainn Wilson

Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever. Bill O'Reilly

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up. Cat Deeley

Robin Williams was a wonderful, kind, and generous man. One important thing I remember about his personality is that he was unassuming - he never acted as if he was powerful or famous. Patch Adams

Many people don't know our famous 'soup kitchen' episode on Seinfeld was inspired by an actual soup restaurant off 8th Avenue in New York. Jason Alexander

A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-'60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution. Jairam Ramesh

I want to eat, cook, meet famous people and make fun of them. Roseanne Barr

I remember debating the finer points of flaky pastry with my chicken-pot-pie-obsessed American dad. I remember the divine mix of Thai food, TV dinners, and hearty, homemade goodness that have shaped this palate of mine to this day. I remember all this, but I still Google my husband's birthday. Thank God he's famous. Chrissy Teigen

I'm the man that made wrestling famous. Hulk Hogan

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people. Daniel Radcliffe

I can read a crowd pretty well. I know what to play and know how to keep it interesting for them and for myself as well. Most of the other DJs are more like producers so they become famous because they make hits and then they start DJ-ing. But I'm more from the other way around. Tiesto

I don't want to be famous for being famous. Kelli O'Hara

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision. Kathryn Harrison

The most famous and one of the most thoroughgoing opponents of bank credit was Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson reacted to the panic of 1819 as a confirmation of his pessimistic views on banks. Murray Rothbard

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother. Elizabeth Olsen

The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out. Larry King

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything. Dylan Moran

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything. Ricky Gervais

Frost was no match for Nixon - far from being an intrepid and challenging interviewer, he was a pushover for the great and the famous, always deeply impressed with the fact that here he was, David Frost, putting questions to - Richard Nixon! Michael Korda

I feel lucky, where I'm not 'famous' famous. I'm not someone that everyone kind of knows for no reason. If people know who I am, they like me because if they didn't like me, they forgot about me. Bo Burnham

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

I like celebrities. I love people who are famous. Always have. Elaine Stritch

Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous. Junipero Serra

We've actually named asteroids for other famous women in history, like Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Sojourner Truth. But it's really this Malala one that's catching people's attention. Carrie Nugent

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular. Danica McKellar

You cannot hear the name Martin Luther King, Jr., and not think of death. You might hear the words 'I have a dream,' but they will doubtlessly only serve to underscore an image of a simple motel balcony, a large man made small, a pool of blood. For as famous as he may have been in life, it is - and was - death that ultimately defined him. Michael Eric Dyson

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good. Laura Linney

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve. Simon Sinek

Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together. Jewel

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings? Bo Burnham

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash. Anthony Hopkins

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you. Usain Bolt

You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that. Jamie Cullum

I had no preconceived idea what fame would be like, because I never thought I would be famous. I just wanted to do my work. Hell, I just wanted to pay my rent on time. Iyanla Vanzant

I developed the pilot for 'Entertainment Tonight' with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in 'Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,' 'Runaway' and several other shows and specials. Robin Leach

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made. George Lucas

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

There's a famous slogan here in the Bavarian dialect, and we use it inside Bayern Munich. We say, 'Mia san mia.' Literally, it is, 'We are we,' but it means, 'We are who we are.' That's not being very arrogant, but we are very confident about our ability to win the game. It is about a winning mentality. Bastian Schweinsteiger

I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant. Manolo Blahnik

There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent. Rachel Sklar

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

To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated. Anna Wintour

I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. Cary Grant


As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe. Zoe Foster Blake

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one. Jarvis Cocker

My daughter couldn't care less about me being famous. She finds it revolting and, like a lot of teenagers, is virtually allergic to me. That started at 12 and hasn't gone anywhere yet. Dawn French

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

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nobody sane wants just to be famous. Jamie Dornan

Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts. Jenn Proske

He caressed my backside. I had heard that he was famous for his 'admiration' of the ladies, but I didn't expect him to be handling my booty. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I wasn't sure if he was making a pass or just exercising some royal rights to squeeze the foreigners. Debbie Reynolds

You just feel like you're doing a job that you want to be doing, and then one day, somebody asks you a question like that: 'What's it like to be famous?' It doesn't really mean anything. The only difference is some people stop you and ask you for photographs. Hozier

There are a lot of famous comedians from Liverpool, then obviously the Beatles, and the football club. That's what people in Liverpool are passionate about. Ian Rush

If you chase fame, you make bad choices. Being famous isn't interesting. Justin Theroux

All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs. C. Z. Guest

I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy. Hailey Baldwin

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies. Seth Rogen

This whole segregation between famous people and other people is complete rubbish. Maisie Williams

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

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous. Alanis Morissette

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing. Ethan Canin

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous. Zayn Malik

Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. Bill James

Celebrity damages private life. Tim Berners-Lee

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. Orson Welles

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous. Michael Caine

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame. Jonathan Tucker

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous. Zsa Zsa Gabor

I was never as famous as all these kids. There was no social media. We weren't celebrity-obsessed as a culture. I feel like these kids are under a crazy microscope; they're basically brands. And they eventually implode and act out. They need a break, and they're not getting one. Gaby Hoffmann

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives. Elizabeth Gilbert

I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame. Zadie Smith

I think Chris Martin is younger than I am, but when I met him, I felt like I was talking to my father. It's so strange, that feeling when someone is that famous - you assume that they are either older or better. Jenny Lewis

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

There's this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if there's no talent you won't get the part. Lily Collins

I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous. Anna Kournikova

I earned my famous name. Brian Wilson

Have I ever been to a party with a ton of famous people in it? Yes, several times, so I guess that's a Hollywood lifestyle. Michael Keaton

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it. John C. Maxwell

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work. Anne Hathaway

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too. Gwen Stefani

By no means do I try to go out and hang out with famous people. Brad Paisley

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out. Daniel Radcliffe

I could have been a lot more famous and played leading men and everything. For whatever reason, I didn't go for it. Harry Dean Stanton

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz story that we haven't seen before. I would love to do that! I would love to play Diana Ross 'cause she's an icon. I'm salivating to do that. Taraji P. Henson

When someone becomes successful or rich and famous, people perceive that person as being different. But I'm the same guy I've always been. Barry Zito

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s. Dylan Moran

The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them. Lynn Coady

It's famous that comedians have a very dark personal state of mind. I think, in my case, it's the same. The only way to get deep is to have a balance, or a counterbalance. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu


The advantage of taking pictures of the famous is that they get published. Elliott Erwitt

Famous for his 'Maverick' Western series in the 1950s and 'The Rockford Files' in the '70s, and in movies like 'The Great Escape' and 'Grand Prix' in between, James Garner played amiable, independent characters for more than a half-century and never lost his comforting, enduring appeal. Richard Corliss

I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star. Rick Riordan

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine. Maisie Williams

On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim. Ahmed Zewail

Usually when I see someone famous, for some reason, I think I know them. Leona Lewis

As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories. Pankaj Mishra

One thing about D.C. that's funny to me is that you end up running into famous political figures who you've seen on television who you think are not real until you see them. Maz Jobrani

There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring. Tim Roth

My name is not big enough for people to go, 'Let me throw money at you because you're so famous!' Nikki Reed

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

I don't think it's anything you ever get used to... for many years, I could never sort of put my name in the same sort of category as the word 'famous' or anything like that. And I just found it very uncomfortable... if you get used to it, then something must be wrong. Johnny Depp

I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. Cory Monteith

Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards. Robert Gottlieb

You don't become a chef to become famous. Eric Ripert

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school. Kin Hubbard

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

I think when you're on a network show, it's crazy how different it is... just being on a network show that reaches that many people. It's not like I'm very famous, but seemingly overnight, I would get recognized more, and it was really weird. Adam Scott

I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, 'Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast. They must have some special kind of cereal!' My mind was so warped by the idea of fame. Bo Burnham

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks. Bradley Wiggins

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool. James Blunt

It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor. Gary Lineker

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman was determined not to remain one. She escaped from her owners in Maryland on the Underground Railroad in 1849 and then fearlessly returned thirteen times to help guide family members and others to freedom as the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. Susan Campbell Bartoletti

My family's lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that's stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have. Conor McGregor

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous. Jennifer Aniston

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous. Adriana Lima

I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous. Lady Gaga

I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician. Mike Posner

I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on. Adele

Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York. Jimmy Breslin

If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing. Viola Davis

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous. Ellen DeGeneres

To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers. Evan Osnos

I didn't think I was a famous singer. I didn't think I was a star or that I could make the waters part - just that singing was what I was going to do. Linda Ronstadt

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit. Wayne Rooney

My family has existed in eastern Kentucky for as long as there are records. If you're familiar with the famous Hatfield-McCoy family feud back in the 1860s, '70s and '80s in the United States, my family was an integral part of that. J. D. Vance

Whether we are famous or not, we all need God. We also need other people. Chuck Norris

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong? Barbra Streisand

I grew up with a pretty tough mom. She was a self-appointed neighborhood watchdog, and if she saw that any of the local boys were up to no good, she would scold them on the spot. Although she is only 5 feet 2, she was famous in our neighborhood for intimidating men three times her size and getting them to do the right thing. Hanna Rosin

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. Moon Unit Zappa

I don't ever want to be famous. I never want to live that life. I genuinely hate the fact that I would be stopped for a picture or an autograph all the time. Charlotte Dujardin

No matter how much money you make, no matter how famous you are, you're not above going outside and cutting trees. I do it all the time. Bill Goldberg

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.' Philip Seymour Hoffman

When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet. Tony Hawk

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'? Wale

My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting a very private, solitary battle with mental illness. Shawn Amos

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity. Tony Wilson

I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to. Mary Lambert

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

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession. James Carville

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice. Bo Bennett

I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy. Sia

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. Lord Byron


I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends. Adam Sandler

People are famous for being famous and for nothing else. And good luck to them, because it lasts about a year and then they're nothing again. Brian Johnson

I've interviewed presidents and royalty, rock stars and movie stars, famous generals and captains of industry; I've had front row seats at Super Bowls, World Series, and Olympic Games; my books have been on best-seller lists, and my marriage is a long-running success. Tom Brokaw

Dad was always that way: who's the candidate that's best for this country? We can debate theology later - that was his famous line. I kind of feel like that's in my DNA. Jerry Falwell, Jr.

I've never been one for crushing on famous people. Daisy Ridley

Being in 'Us Weekly' does not make you famous. Bradley Cooper

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir. David Bowie

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup. Janelle Monae

I'm hardly the most notable person in 'Zombieland.' The other actors in it are way more famous than I am. Jesse Eisenberg

It's kinda me and Jon Stewart have a pact together - so he's making me famous in the Western world and I'm making him famous in Egypt! Bassem Youssef

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. Robert De Niro

I've always been quite famous for my nose. Darcey Bussell

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would! Bruce Dickinson

I find it weird the way people get so excited about celebrity. If my friends are on the phone, their friends will say: 'Is that kid from 'Love Actually' there?' And the phone gets passed round and I have to speak to this stranger asking: 'Are you famous?' I don't know how to answer. Thomas Sangster

Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. Philippe Petit

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it. Ron White

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men. Ernest Thompson Seton

What is so weird is that young people who want to be 'celebrities' do not want to put in the hard work. They don't want to do the training, go to drama school, read Shakespeare, try different accents and study technique. They just want to be famous. It is not just in England; it's the same in America and all over Europe. Joan Collins

You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance. Victoria Pendleton

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. Helen Hayes

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous. Jeff Foxworthy

Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster. Madonna Ciccone

There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character. Kim Kardashian

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others. Edmund White

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

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way. Ravi Shankar

Everybody think they're famous when they get 100,000 followers on Instagram and 5,000 on Twitter. Meek Mill

It's always a little mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors know who I am. Emily Blunt

Having been part of this wonderful show ever since series one, I know all too well what it's like to perform to the nation on the famous 'Strictly Come Dancing' dancefloor. Anton du Beke

With brain hacking experiments, I've hacked into Morgan Freeman's brain. He was the most famous and the most nerve wracking because I got really awestruck when I met him, and the moment I was introduced to him, he challenged me there and then to hack his brain. Keith Barry

I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent. Kat Dennings

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. J. K. Rowling

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion. Eminem

This sounds crazy, but I know so many famous people, I'm just not intimidated by anyone. I feel really comfortable with it. Tom Ford

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars. Kevin Bacon

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.' Andy Warhol

I liked comedy as a kid. When I was a kid, I'd go to sleep to, like, Bill Cosby albums every night. I'd listen to 'Bill Cosby Is A Very Funny Fellow... Right!' and 'Wonderfulness,' which are two of his most famous albums. Then the next night, I'd flip them over, 'cause it was the old stackable turntable. Stephen Colbert

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line. Bear Grylls

We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this. Panayiotis Zavos

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

Of course, screwed up families are not the exclusive province of the famous. Still, most families get to screw up in private. Shawn Amos

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. Emily Dickinson

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me. FKA twigs

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real. Jean-Claude Van Damme

I don't want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That's why it's so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me. Lucky Blue Smith

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter. George Clooney

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right. John Travolta

You aren't famous until my mother has heard of you. Jay Leno

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. Al Jourgensen

I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous. Stefano Gabbana

The search for happiness has long been a dominant feature of American life. It's a byproduct of prosperity, not to mention the most famous line in the Declaration of Independence. Meghan Daum

Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal. Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do. Johnny Mathis

I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately. Ansel Elgort

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Emily Dickinson

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around. Anita Ekberg

I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me. Dominic Sherwood

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius. Jerry Lewis

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

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me. Frida Lyngstad

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that. Linda Ronstadt

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.' CeeLo Green

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

I want to be famous everywhere. Luciano Pavarotti

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town. John Cusack

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. Anderson Cooper

The smartest thing that an actor can do is embrace the thing that made them famous as opposed to run away from it or deny that it happened. That does a disservice to most actors. To me, it looks like you're ungrateful. Sean Hayes

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you. Jay Leno

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous. Ellen Page


'Strictly' is a bit like scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup Final or sinking the final putt in the Ryder Cup - only a few people get the opportunity to do it, and they have got to be famous. Anton du Beke

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel. Stephen Kinzer

It's funny - nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they don't have the money to hide from it. Matt LeBlanc

When I wasn't famous, I had a lot of friends, almost all of them Italian. The racism only started when I started to play football. Mario Balotelli

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that, without his outstanding contribution, the history of the Second World War could have been very different. Gordon Brown

To put it simply - you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I don't buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing. Evangeline Lilly

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged. Brandon Stanton

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story. Beth Ditto

It wasn't until after I became famous that people noticed I played in the NFL. I kind of snuck in! Terry Crews

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

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous. Neko Case

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that. Diane Kruger

Acting-wise, I love Helena Bonham Carter. I love Kate Winslet. I love Angelina Jolie when she was 'Girl, Interrupted' Angelina Jolie. There isn't anybody that I can definitely point to and be like her. Because I've never felt like I've been able to relate to the women that are famous. Jessica Williams

I remember feeling guilty that I had a good childhood. I thought everybody who is famous has to have a desperate childhood and work his way out of it, but I had a great one. Tomie dePaola

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine. Peter Jackson

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One famous movie executive, who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer, not an exhibitor.' Shirley Temple

Honestly, this face of mine will always be familiar to people. It's that unique quality, man. If it's a dark and crowded room, people are just able to point me out. I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous. CeeLo Green

If nobody recognizes you, if nobody cares, it's easier to avoid getting carried away. That's way harder if you're a famous artist. Max Martin

I'm so fascinated by YouTube culture. I have no idea how it's working, but more and more people are becoming Internet famous, and it is because it allows you to have an atmosphere in which you feel comfortable to be yourself, which you might not get otherwise. Aubrey Peeples

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

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money. Ron White

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated. Louie Anderson

We played at a festival in Mexico City, at the same time as another famous artist, and I reckon we had 55,000 people watching New Order; the other had 7,000. I think from that I've discovered the secret of success in the music industry: don't do any promotion. Bernard Sumner

I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments. Jane Pauley

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

I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions. Randeep Hooda

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

I wanted to be a political sciencee professor and go to school in Boston. I never wanted to be a big, famous movie star and TV star. It kind of found me. Eliza Dushku

It is ridiculous - like a mad whirlwind... it's mad that I'm so famous. Amy Jackson

Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea. Rebecca Hall

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell. Leona Lewis

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do. Bruno Mars

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day. Haywood Nelson

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky. Diplo

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. Bennett Cerf

I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile. Tim O'Brien

I can't relate to people who treat me as a 'famous person.' I only like to hang around with people who treat me as a regular person because that's what I am. All people are really just regular. Judy Blume

I only wanted to be a songwriter. I never wanted to be a singer. And I never wanted to be famous. Carole King

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

I never, ever see myself as a celebrity or famous, so I poke fun at that. Kendra Wilkinson

Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom. Adam McKay

The first famous winemaking consultant was the late professor Emile Peynaud, who reigned over Bordeaux throughout the 1940s, '50s, '60s and '70s. Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. Dee Dee Myers

When we were growing up our parents somehow made it clear that being famous was good. And I mistakenly thought that if I was famous then everyone would love me. Ellen DeGeneres

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa. Frank Abagnale

I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said. Steve Vai

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed. Courtney Love

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things. Rashida Jones

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. Chris Evert

Before I got famous, I was like a rake. When I was a teenager, I lived on nervous energy. And I always forgot to eat. It was not something I was obsessed with. And then suddenly I got famous, people started taking me out to fancy joints. And the pounds pile on. So I'm much more conscious now about when I eat. How I eat. What I eat. Boy George

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery. Alan Alda

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility. Andrea Bocelli

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives. Zig Ziglar

I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that. Jerry Spinelli

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that. Tom Bodett

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product. Steve Coogan

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood. Megan Fox

While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos. Shawn Amos

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.' Rachel Weisz

Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap. Noel Gallagher

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much. Mike Birbiglia

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage. Jim Capaldi

I guess a show like 'Entourage' would be wish fulfillment, right? But 'Entourage' is wish fulfillment for men. It's that you can be kind of schlumpy-looking and have access to someone famous and find yourself at a pool party surrounded by girls in bikinis. Jill Soloway

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time. Marianne Williamson

The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government. Edmund Morgan

I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely. Shania Twain

Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different. Blake Lively

Maybe Elvis was inhibited by inbred religious prohibitions or an Oedipal complex, or maybe he simply preferred the thrill of a denied release. Whatever put the brakes on the famous pelvis, it ground to a halt at a certain point, and that was it. Rita Moreno

When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers. Karan Mahajan

If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't. Trey Parker

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique. Ken Follett

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence. Russell Brand

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

A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it. Fergie

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, 'I'm number one, I'm the best!' because that sounds like a lot of pressure. Andy Grammer

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist. Robert Crumb

I was obsessed with being rich and famous. Paul Lynde

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to. Kate Winslet

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

When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more. Sia

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony! Fergie

On Sunday morning, it's Brooklyn Bagels on Beverly Boulevard. We get them hot. Then we walk some of the famous Silver Lake steps or hike in the hills to the highest vantage point to see the reservoir. Jill Soloway


I begged the universe to make me a famous comedian, and it did. So I tend not to ask for any more. Ron White

My favourite Korean food is delicious black five-layered pork belly, cooked over a charcoal grill. And Jeju chocolate, in citrus fruits and green tea flavour, which is famous throughout Korea. Lee Hyeon-seo

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

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous; I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view. Russell Crowe

The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness. Daniel J. Boorstin

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

The strong bond of sisterhood was a famous trait in classical art and literature about Amazons. But it was modern people who interpreted that as a sexual preference for women. That started in the 20th century. The Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva declared that Amazons were symbolic of lesbianism in antiquity. Adrienne Mayor

I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. Neil deGrasse Tyson

The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. Norman Davies

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.' Dave Grohl

There's the famous quote that if you want to understand how animals live, you don't go to the zoo, you go to the jungle. The Future Lab has really pioneered that within Lego, and it hasn't been a theoretical exercise. It's been a real design-thinking approach to innovation, which we've learned an awful lot from. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter. Michael Schumacher

If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago. George Harrison

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art. Takashi Murakami

The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking. Glenn Hughes

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it. Gary Oldman

The year after Russell retired, in the famous seventh game of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, Willis Reed, the New York Knicks center, limped onto the court against the Los Angeles Lakers, inspiring his team and freezing Chamberlain into a benign perplexity. Frank Deford

I've come across people referring to themselves as 'Vine famous.' Some of them started out by putting up Vines just for fun, then all of a sudden they get a bunch of fans, and a week later their Vines are totally different. They become obsessed with how their videos will be perceived. Bo Burnham

I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of. Kehlani

It's key to become 'famous' for one thing first, and that will give you the credibility to go into other areas once your ready... which generally means a long time and a lot of perfecting! Kevin Plank

I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. Jeremy Bulloch

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them. Salman Rushdie

In the summer of 1963, my second with 'Sports Illustrated,' Jerry Tax, the basketball editor, got the Celtics' Frank Ramsey, the NBA's first famous sixth man, to do a piece for the magazine revealing some of the devious little tricks of his trade. Things like surreptitiously holding an opponent's shorts - nickel-and-dime stuff. Frank Deford

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online. Shawn Mendes

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same. Aubrey O'Day

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods. Frank Deford

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. Marilyn Monroe

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press. Eric Clapton

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing. Ang Lee

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar. Seamus Heaney

I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation. Nate Berkus

I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well. Tiesto

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous. Tyra Banks

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do. Joe Rogan

That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all. Gordon Banks

Vine is where 'Don't' started popping off. A lot of famous Viners used the song, and that was crazy because I had never been a part of something like that. I drank champagne for the first time when it got 100,000 plays. Bryson Tiller

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy. Marilyn Manson

When you're in a relationship with a very famous person, you have to make compromises. David Furnish

I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me. Zoe Sugg

The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably. Bob Seger


The Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookie was an unexpected, unplanned pop culture phenomena. My father went from star-maker to star. Shawn Amos

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous. Don Johnson

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for. Mickey Drexler

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

More than 700 years ago, the Song Dynasty artist Zheng Sixiao created perhaps the most beautiful image of orchids ever painted, 'Ink Orchid.' And still famous today is a thousand-year-old poem from the Tang Dynasty called 'Orchid and Orange.' Lawrence Osborne

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. Michael Morpurgo

It's not like I'm that wildly famous that it's disrupted my lifestyle in some way. Mariana Klaveno

Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included. Erica Jong

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure. Barry Gibb

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

I do know something about the news world. I was sitting on the floors of newsrooms since I was seven years old, and I've been around them my whole life. I understand that someone looks at a story with famous people in it, and you want to put it out. George Clooney

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal. Patrick Rothfuss

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding the great analyst or the famous journalist who will endorse what you do and tell the rest of the world to go and buy your product. Guy Kawasaki

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world. Wynonna Judd

I'm kinda famous for my barbecues - I'm always hosting parties. Bonnie McKee

My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics. Natalie Massenet

I'm more interested in being good than being famous. Annie Leibovitz

Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling. Daniel Bryan

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous. Logan Lerman

Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always. Bill Simmons

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything. Dave Chappelle

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world. Evel Knievel

It's great to make your own choices, but there's a price to pay. I could've made more money or been more famous. I could be the current groovy guy. Michael Keaton

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. J. K. Rowling

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? Ryan Giggs

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it. Simon Cowell

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful. Chazz Palminteri

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense. Kimbal Musk

I never got into things to be famous. Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's annoying. Judah Friedlander

Vegas is famous for a lot of things, and bad marriages are one of them. Margo and I are proof that you can make this work. It just takes a little effort. Ron White

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need. Lady Gaga

Andy Warhol made fame more famous. Fran Lebowitz

One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes. Jim Lee

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble. Bruce Willis

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

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.' Fred Armisen

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul. Annette Bening

What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous. Lady Gaga

It's easy to be famous today. People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me. They were mostly working-class. Evel Knievel

There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet. Natalie Cole

To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty. Hedy Lamarr

I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous. Shawn Mendes

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less. Robert Wyatt

I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements. Brian Grazer

No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you. Sushant Singh Rajput

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true. Alanis Morissette

My hair was famous before I was. Christopher Walken

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on. Julie Burchill

When I did 'Percy Jackson,' people told me, 'Oh, you're going to be so famous... you're not going to be able to walk down the street... it's going to be huge,' and it wasn't - although it was big for my career. Alexandra Daddario

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their hand and they've got a camera in their hand. And they don't even get their hand out, because they're recording the whole time. George Clooney

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it. Dave Chappelle

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous. Marion Jones

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous. Joe Rogan

I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different. Anton Corbijn