Famous Quotes

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

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

To be famous and broke is hard.

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.

It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do.

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

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.

Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

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.

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.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

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

There is this power that comes with being famous.

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.