Top 80 Famous O'leary Quotes

#1. You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

Ang Lee

Famous O'leary Quotes #703
#2. Exposure and attention make a work famous - the more you talk about it, the more attention it gets, the more validity it achieves.

Andy Warhol

Famous O'leary Quotes #1063
#3. I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

Heather Morris

Famous O'leary Quotes #1079
#4. I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

Bill Murray

Famous O'leary Quotes #1434
#5. Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

John Cusack

Famous O'leary Quotes #1517
#6. This region was the centre of the flint industry in Neolithic times. And later, it became famous for rabbits farmed for meat and felt.

Helen Macdonald

Famous O'leary Quotes #1584
#7. They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.

Lillie Langtry

Famous O'leary Quotes #3015
#8. That save from Pele's header was the best I ever made. I didn't have any idea how famous it would become - to start with, I didn't even realise I'd made it at all.

Gordon Banks

Famous O'leary Quotes #6322
#9. You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.

Dave Barry

Famous O'leary Quotes #7034
#10. Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.

Jeff Foxworthy

Famous O'leary Quotes #7752
#11. Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Michael N. Castle

Famous O'leary Quotes #10182
#12. Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Aidan Quinn

Famous O'leary Quotes #11299
#13. Britney Spears told an interviewer if she weren't famous, she would be a teacher. So thank God she's famous.

Jay Leno

Famous O'leary Quotes #11477
#14. Sometimes all it takes is one Deep Breath and everything falls into place.

Liz Hester

Famous O'leary Quotes #11852
#15. People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.

Salma Hayek

Famous O'leary Quotes #11920
#16. Do your best when no one is looking.

Bob Cousy

Famous O'leary Quotes #12277
#17. Clark Kent doesn't want to be famous. He doesn't want people to look at him. If they really look at him, they'd see that he's just Superman with glasses.

Rainbow Rowell

Famous O'leary Quotes #12630
#18. I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

Zadie Smith

Famous O'leary Quotes #12979
#19. Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Frida Lyngstad

Famous O'leary Quotes #13050
#20. When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

Cass Elliot

Famous O'leary Quotes #13343
#21. You'll pardon me," said Beatrice, "if I fail to appreciate sarcasm and all the other brilliant nuances of your no doubt famous wit, Mr. Constant[ ... ]

Kurt Vonnegut

Famous O'leary Quotes #13668
#22. I am a champion, and my damsel is in distress. Failure is not an option." "But death is," she mumbled under her breath. "Fear not, mate. I will prevail." Famous last words.

Eve Langlais

Famous O'leary Quotes #14152
#23. Fame is like a big eraser. It's strange, now that I'm famous. In my parents' opinion, all the shitty things - all the wreckage of my past - is erased. Now it's like I was never the kid who got arrested. Now I'm a wonderful son.

Bobcat Goldthwait

Famous O'leary Quotes #14377
#24. None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

Nicholas Sparks

Famous O'leary Quotes #14456
#25. When I get older losing my hair many years from now,
Will you still be sending me a Valentine, birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door?
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?

John Lennon

Famous O'leary Quotes #14923
#26. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.

John Leo

Famous O'leary Quotes #15483
#27. Know the difference between famous and great.

Deacon Jones

Famous O'leary Quotes #15597
#28. Here's the funny thing about the response I've been aware of to my dating famous people: It's been very negative. I'm either not good-looking enough, not a good enough actor or not successful enough for these people.

Dax Shepard

Famous O'leary Quotes #17774
#29. My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Wynonna Judd

Famous O'leary Quotes #19531
#30. The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

Gary Saul Morson

Famous O'leary Quotes #20486
#31. When I started skating, it was such a small community. You didn't aspire to be rich or famous or make a career out of it because that wasn't something anyone had done yet.

Tony Hawk

Famous O'leary Quotes #21836
#32. I'm not named after the character,' she said. 'I'm named after the entire opera.

Julie Orringer

Famous O'leary Quotes #23154
#33. I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Paul Lynde

Famous O'leary Quotes #23520
#34. We're teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Ellen Pompeo

Famous O'leary Quotes #23818
#35. People roll their eyes and say, "Oh god, he's not rich or famous." I say it's relative. I mean, look at me: I'm 115 pounds and I grew up without money. To me, I'm rich because I don't have to worry about paying rent. I don't think about money now.

Bradford Cox

Famous O'leary Quotes #24189
#36. Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.

Emo Philips

Famous O'leary Quotes #24499
#37. I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

Noel Gallagher

Famous O'leary Quotes #24591
#38. Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

Edwin Land

Famous O'leary Quotes #25210
#39. Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.

L.M. Montgomery

Famous O'leary Quotes #25284
#40. While not a musician, my father was a music agent for years before becoming pop culture icon Famous Amos.

Shawn Amos

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#41. I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.

Jane Pauley

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#42. Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first. I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.

Noel Coward

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#43. The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

Arthur Miller

Famous O'leary Quotes #28584
#44. I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Famous O'leary Quotes #28872
#45. The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ...
and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.

Henry David Thoreau

Famous O'leary Quotes #29231
#46. I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned?

Jonathan Safran Foer

Famous O'leary Quotes #30627
#47. In Germany I am not so famous.

Hans Berger

Famous O'leary Quotes #30639
#48. When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does.

Marilyn Monroe

Famous O'leary Quotes #31226
#49. The human eye is restricted to see the useen, because there's a price to be paid to the rulers of this image and if this image is seen by you, you'll dare not divulge it to others, for others must pay a price

Michael Bassey Johnson

Famous O'leary Quotes #31812
#50. My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's answer to Studio 54.

Liberty Ross

Famous O'leary Quotes #32032
#51. I have always wondered at the passion many people have to meet the celebrated. The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account

W. Somerset Maugham

Famous O'leary Quotes #32128
#52. The famous jack-o-lantern mushroom, which glows at night with a greenish phosphorescent ligh called foxfire.

Bill Bryson

Famous O'leary Quotes #159608
#53. I think that once you open the door and allow people in on a certain aspect, it's very hard to then control how far that ripple effect is. So I think that the person who is known or famous has the ability to decide what they do or don't want to share.

Rosie O'Donnell

Famous O'leary Quotes #174820
#54. All writers have the idea that they are famous.

Heather O'Neill

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#55. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.

Bill O'Reilly

Famous O'leary Quotes #243314
#56. A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.

Kelli O'Hara

Famous O'leary Quotes #253025
#57. I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.

Peter O'Toole

Famous O'leary Quotes #339019
#58. Temptation's something you have to deal with even if you're not famous. It's harder when you're famous because it's a lot more in your face, and that makes it a little more difficult to walk away from sometimes.

Denis Leary

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#59. Rich parents are famous both for miserliness and astonishing longevity. And, when they finally do die, you'll find they've left their estate in inviolate trust to the golden retrievers.

P. J. O'Rourke

Famous O'leary Quotes #622018
#60. 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.

Robert Morgan

Famous O'leary Quotes #673209
#61. 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.

P. J. O'Rourke

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#62. I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

Lupita Nyong'o

Famous O'leary Quotes #782088
#63. One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

Aubrey O'Day

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#64. Jesus of Nazareth was the most famous human being who ever lived on this planet, and he had no infrastructure, and it's never been done. He had no government, no PR guy, no money, no structure. He had nothing, yet he became the most famous human being ever.

Bill O'Reilly

Famous O'leary Quotes #846950
#65. 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.

Shaquille O'Neal

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#66. On the opposite side, at about seven o'clock, is the little town of Urbanna where the famous Oyster Festival is held every year.

Anonymous

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#67. The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

Varley O'Connor

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#68. When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

Famous O'leary Quotes #1159125
#69. In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.

Norman O. Brown

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#70. I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

Denis Leary

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#71. Timothy Leary declared that personal computers had become the new LSD and years later revised his famous mantra to proclaim, Turn on, boot up, jack in.

Walter Isaacson

Famous O'leary Quotes #1433237
#72. You'd get on the plane; and every single person is somebody really, really famous. It just killed me. On one flight you'd have Linda Gray, O.J. Simpson, Robert De Niro, Carol Burnett, Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds ... and Francis Ford Coppola.

Paul Reubens

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#73. Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

Homer

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#74. Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.

Bill O'Reilly

Famous O'leary Quotes #1452813
#75. I don't want to be famous for being famous.

Kelli O'Hara

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#76. I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

O.J. Simpson

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#77. I didn't get into writing to make money or get famous or any of that. I got into it to hit hearts, and man, when I get letters not just from the soldiers but from their kids, especially their kids, it makes it all worthwhile.

Tim O'Brien

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#78. Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.

Kelli O'Hara

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#79. I seek no longer to be a 'famous' person, and instead I wish to live a 'normal' life.

Sinead O'Connor

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#80. I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

Eugene O'Neill

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