Famous Quotes

Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

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.'

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

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.

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

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

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!

In a lot of aspects it's cooler that we don't have a lot of really overly famous people in the band.

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

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

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.

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

The press attack people to sell more papers without thinking, but when you get famous you have to put up with this kind of stuff.

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

You would think that with ten super-famous people in one movie, it's gonna be ten times more popular or viewed, but on some level, they can cancel each other out.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

You do now have one in three people, as shown by the famous Carlton Monarchy debate poll, saying they want to get rid of the Monarchy. That was unthinkable even three, four years ago.

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.