Famous Quotes

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

I never pursued being 'famous.'

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

Hold on to that. You have an autograph. I'm going to be famous some day.

I don't want to be more famous than what I have right now. At least in that sense where people come up to me in the grocery store.

I was famous from birth.

The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

OK, so I'm not famous for the right reasons.

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.

You're not famous until my mother has heard of you.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

I kept saying that I'd never live in L.A., and I didn't think I would. But that's where the work is, and I ended up making a lot of friends there, and my old friends moved out to Los Angeles too. And also, I think when you're famous, its hard to live in a small town.

I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

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

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.