Famous Quotes

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

If somebody for some reason, for music or for movie, becomes famous, it's because they have something, something special.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

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.

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

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

The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

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.

In Germany I am not so famous.

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

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

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

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.

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.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

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.

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

I know I have this level of celebrity, of fame, international, national, whatever you want to call it, but it's a pretty surreal thing to think sometimes that you're in the middle of another famous person's life and you think to yourself, 'How the hell did I get famous? What is this some weird club that we're in?'

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Berry Gordy turned his house into a studio and discovered over 30 acts in the city. And we're famous all over the world.

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

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

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

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.