Famous Quotes

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.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.

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 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!"

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills.

Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.

The whole 'American Idol' way of looking at things is the antithesis of what I grew up with. There are a whole lot of kids wanting to be famous now, whereas if I'd even mentioned that word to one of my teachers, I would have got into a whole load of trouble.

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

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

My mom just didn't put a very high premium on me being like really famous or really wealthy or anything.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

We were delighted to have Nigel as a producer. The only problem is that Nigel is so famous that he seems to dominate most interviews without being there.

HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned.