Famous Quotes

Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

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.

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.

I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

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.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

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.

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.

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.

I became famous almost before I had a craft.

I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay.

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, "Hi Dave!"