Famous Quotes

I remember Michael saying, 'Rich and famous? It's much better to be just rich'. I didn't quite get it to begin with. But he's right. You lose anonymity. I say to my family that you've no idea until you lose it how precious anonymity is.

I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

I never thought about being famous.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?'

I want to be in 'Glee,' but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is "In 15 minutes everybody will be famous."

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity.

It's not a sport you get famous at. If I wanted to be famous, I would have stuck with hockey.

I'm the man that made wrestling famous.

In the sixties, everyone you knew became famous. My flatmate was Terence Stamp. My barber was Vidal Sassoon. David Hockney did the menu in a restaurant I went to. I didn't know anyone unknown who didn't become famous.

Yankee Stadium, and the Yankees are so famous for Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, all of those guys.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

You know, be an actor because you love to act. Don't be an actor because you think you're going to get famous, because that's luck.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

There is this power that comes with being famous.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.