Famous Quotes

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.

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

I'm not unknown, yet I'm not super famous where I can't go anywhere.

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.

I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know; they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.

Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.

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.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

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.