Famous Quotes

It's more important for me to feel content than to be famous.

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.

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.

And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous.

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.

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

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

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.

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

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

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

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.

People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

My name's Jennifer Ellison and one day I'm going to be famous!

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

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