Famous Quotes

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.

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

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

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

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

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.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

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

People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

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

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

I can never really enjoy being famous.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.

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

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.

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.

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.

When you become famous, being famous becomes your profession.

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

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

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