Famous Quotes

I made my living being 20 or 30 pounds heavier than the average model. And that's where I got famous.

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.

My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

It was never about winning medals or being famous.

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

Everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

My hair was famous before I was.

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

You don't have to have an attitude if you're famous.

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

I've always been successful. Now I'm famous and successful.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

I don't want to be famous. I want to be secure. I don't want the world. I just want a piece of it. I want people to remember Eric Davis.