Famous Quotes

I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.

I get recognized, but I'm not really a famous famous.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

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.

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.

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

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.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

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

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

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

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.

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, "Hi Dave!"

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

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

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.

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