Famous Person Sayings

#1. 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

#2. It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#3. There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

Rachel Sklar

#4. A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

Van Morrison

#5. I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Mindy Kaling

#6. Be A Famous Person Is Difficult , But Very Difficult To Be The Intelligent Man.

Jemmy Wiratama

#7. I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

Sebastian Horsley

#8. It seems unfair that anyone can set up on Twitter using my name, or the name of any famous person, without any checks at all.

Shirley Eaton

#9. I'm not cut out to be a famous person; I can't do my hair and makeup well enough.

Jennifer Weiner

#10. The excitement for me lies not so much in interviewing the hard-to-get famous person, but the person whom you are about to discover. You know, like maybe the character actors who are just coming into their own and you're realizing how great they are.

Terry Gross

#11. You can make any quote sound meaningful by putting a famous person's name after it.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. I pulled myself together. I could do this. Until then, Hugh was the most famous person I'd ever met. Well, Hugh had just been star-slapped!
Harriet Jones, On Our Own Terms

Adelaide Hipwell

#13. I don't think of myself as a very famous person, but the modicum of celebrity that I've had has not been a positive experience for me at all.

Marianne Williamson

#14. If you are a very famous person, the best weather for you will be the foggy weather! It will hide you from the people and it will give you the great joy of being no one!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#15. I don't want to name drop, but Russell Crowe is the most famous person in my phone.

Jai Courtney

#16. So I've decided to be a very rich and famous person who doesn't really care about money, and who is very humble but who still makes a lot of money and is very famous, but is very humble and rich and famous ...

Linus Torvalds

#17. The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#18. 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.

John Mayer

#19. A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Saul Leiter

#20. I was getting a lot of editorial, as in lots of pages in 'Vogue,' but it's far more important to get your dresses on the back of a famous person. Charlotte Rampling in Bruce Oldfield. That sells.

Bruce Oldfield

#21. I have to adjust. I have to be nice to all the people. Because of the people I have become a famous person. My responsibility is to fulfill my responsibility as a famous person.

Manny Pacquiao

#22. I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.

Marina And The Diamonds

#23. No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.

Nick Kroll

#24. Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work.

Anne Hathaway

#25. The only normal people are people you don't know very well." Diesel
"That's a quote from a famous person," I told him. Lizzy Tucker

Janet Evanovich

#26. Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.

Jeff Bridges

#27. I've never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to be a famous person or anything like that, and I think my fans know that as well.

Ellie Goulding

#28. The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person; they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state.

Dada Bhagwan

#29. There is less pressure as a character actor. It generally means that you will be acting for all of your life, which is my intention. It is not my intention to just be a rich and famous person, that would be pretty boring.

Tim Roth

#30. I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.

Andy Warhol

#31. There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

Daniel Radcliffe

#32. The hardest working person in showbusiness has never been or ever will be a 'famous person'.

Daniel Tosh

#33. When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.

Ashish Chauhan

#34. You never have to listen to a famous person, it's an elective.

Henry Rollins

#35. The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

Adam Garcia

#36. If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

Sia Furler

#37. Some famous person said, "Success is 50 percent luck and 50 percent preparedness for that luck." I think that's a lot of it. It's being ready to take advantage of opportunities when they arise.

Jessica Livingston

#38. It's not like I'm the most famous person in the world.

Ron Silver

#39. I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.

Ana Gasteyer

#40. I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

Nate Berkus

#41. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Andy Warhol

#42. There is only two kind of #books .First one is by some #famous person and Second one makes a person #famous .

Tushar Upreti

#43. Hey. What is it that famous person said? 'It'll all work out in the end, and if it doesn't, that means it's not the end yet'?

Lauren Myracle

#44. I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

Donna Leon

#45. Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#46. For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Jesse Owens

#47. The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

David Tang

#48. I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever ... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

FKA Twigs

#49. People would go anywhere to see a famous person in the flesh, no matter what they do.

Tom Lehrer

#50. 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.

Ethan Hawke

#51. I was never about being a celebrity. Maybe when I was very young, but that goes away quickly. I've met almost every famous person I want to meet.

Julie Warner

#52. If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.

Jennifer Lawrence

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

Gwen Stefani

#54. I don't see myself as a famous person.

Jess Glynne

#55. If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

Emilio Pucci

#56. I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

Daniel Radcliffe

#57. I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You have to decide what your priorities are. Great actor, huge star. Sometimes, the two walk hand in hand. Most of the time, they don't.

Anne-Marie Duff

#58. I have enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet. And I'm doing it. I am now a famous person. I represent real power.

Newt Gingrich

#59. I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Ann Brashares

#60. Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?

J.R. Rain

#61. It's better to be a good person than a famous person.

Jenny Holzer

#62. If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face

Thom Yorke

#63. If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

George Clooney

#64. I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Ayelet Zurer

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

Sinead O'Connor

#66. 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

#67. The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#68. If I meet someone at a bus stop, I want to really meet that person. I don't want to be 'Hugh Jackman, the famous actor.'

Hugh Jackman

#69. I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.

Ravi Shankar

#70. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?

Torron-Lee Dewar

#71. I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

Emma Watson

#72. Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

C. Wright Mills

#73. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

#74. To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

Evan Osnos

#75. Hey, why this person blocked me?", "WTF, this guy I know him!", "WTF this guy I don't know but he has send me request???", "Oh,oh That's the famous singer from the TV!! I know that person, I know him?!, I know him!?"... This is called the future - so my question is are you prepared for this?

Deyth Banger

#76. 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

#77. Some say their world's will end in fire, some say in ice From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those yu favor fire. My world may not be ending although it does feel like it. I do know this, whatever doesnt kill you only makes you stronger.

Genesis

#78. I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.

Katharine Hamnett

#79. In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Dave Barry

#80. The very wealthy and the very famous have a much closer affinity with the indigent street person than with the rest of us. There's the narcissism, the addiction, even the outlandish dress. Often they don't put great value in relationships.

Drew Pinsky

#81. Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

Earl Nightingale

#82. I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

Kate Winslet

#83. Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world.

Dee Dee Myers

#84. I have actor friends, but they're not famous. I feel like if you're an actor or - famous, you have to overly prove that you're a normal, cool person.

Amanda Bynes

#85. Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.

Sidney Mohede

#86. Some say their world's will end with fire, some say with ice. From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those who favor fire. My world may not be ending, even though it feels like it. I do know this however, what doesn't kill you only mke you stronger.

Genesis

#87. But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

Steve Wozniak

#88. I hope someday when I date my fan, she loves me as a person and not as a famous Greyson Chance

Greyson Chance

#89. There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#90. You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

Jessica Zafra

#91. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

Larry Hagman

#92. The French may be straining the truth in their famous saying that "to understand all is to forgive all"," but it is certainly true that the more we know of any given person, the harder it becomes to hate him.

Sydney J. Harris

#93. I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

Brandon Stanton

#94. I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

B. D. Wong

#95. Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, 'Why is that person staring at me?'

Bob Newhart

#96. When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

Chris Evert

#97. A person who's going to be famous usually drops a few clues by the time they're twenty-one.

Frank D. Gilroy

#98. Person of Interest is an example of series which have a lot of reverses... what if somebody knows a lot of about you?? And you don't him??
You are not famous and he doesn't exist as a person?? WOW, isn't it awesome??

Deyth Banger

#99. And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned that helping other people brings out the good in everybody.

Joan Bauer

#100. Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

Joseph Addison