Top 100 Famous You Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.
Bruno Tonioli
#4. What's awful about being famous and being an actress is when people come up to you and touch you. That's scary, and they just seem to think it's okay to do it, like you're public property.
Winona Ryder
#5. Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.
Orson Welles
#6. I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.
Karen Gillan
#7. I don't have a problem with recognition ... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.' ... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'
C. C. H. Pounder
#8. 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.
Wayne Rooney
#9. 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.
Bill Murray
#10. If you took some famous religious leader, for example, and said it would be nice to clone them indefinitely so you have a dynasty of leaders, my own guess would be that each time the cloning takes place, they would become more and more defective, presumably mentally defective and subsequently worse.
John Gurdon
#11. My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'
Peyton Manning
#13. It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise.
Saul Bellow
#14. Don't pursue happiness!
Life is as short as a sigh.
The dust of people that were once famous
turn with the reddish clay on the wheel you are
looking at. The universe is a fata morgana;
life is a dream.
Omar Khayyam
#15. Friendship is like a stubborn child who is playing hide and seek with your life. You have to find him at the darkest places of your heart in difficult times. And when you find the child; his smile will light up the darkness of your life.
Sandeep Sharma
#16. I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy.
Amber Rose
#17. There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
Tasha Smith
#18. You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
David Lee Roth
#19. 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
#20. Your face is your calling card, but you're not so famous that you can't go out.
Vincent Schiavelli
#21. 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
#22. His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools
the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans
and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.
Terry Pratchett
#23. You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become.
Brenda Fassie
#24. When you send off a short story, it sits on the editor's desk in the same pile with stories by the most famous and honored names in present-day writing-and it's not going to be accepted unless it's as good as theirs. (And it'll probably have to be better.)
Daniel Quinn
#25. It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.
Serena Williams
#26. Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
Salman Rushdie
#27. Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.
Johnny Mathis
#28. When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
Cyndi Lauper
#29. If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.
Mariah Carey
#30. You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,
while the sea destroys its perpetual statues,
collapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:
because in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,
galloping water, incessant sand,
we make the only permanent tenderness.
Pablo Neruda
#32. Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.
Bono
#33. You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
Orlando Bloom
#34. When you become a celebrity, your shit becomes news.
M.F. Moonzajer
#35. I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.
Bonnie Wright
#36. The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
Al Pacino
#37. If you've ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don't write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.
Larry Brooks
#38. There's a famous quote by Benjamin Franklin that I always loved: "By failing to prepare, you're preparing to fail".
Argena Olivis
#39. It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?
Eddie Van Halen
#40. One famous movie executive who shall remain nameless, exposed himself to me in his office. 'Mr X,' I said, 'I thought you were a producer not an exhibitor'.
Shirley Temple
#41. You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.
Laura Schlessinger
#42. Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
Malcolm Gladwell
#43. I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.
John Travolta
#44. I've done this job for centuries On every student's head I've sat Of thoughts I take inventories For I'm the famous Sorting Hat I've sorted high, I've sorted low, I've done the job through thick and thin So put me on and you will know Which House you should be in
J.K. Rowling
#45. Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.
John Legend
#46. Famous Harry Potter and all that. I'd hate to see what the Ministry'd do to me if I blew up an aunt. Mind you, they'd have to dig me up first, because Mum would've killed me.
J.K. Rowling
#47. There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.
Jarvis Cocker
#48. Yesterday the Supreme Court lifted the ban on same-sex marriage in Kansas. They didn't give a reason for the ruling, but then again when a state is famous for a Judy Garland musical about a rainbow and a wizard who comes out of a closet, do you really need an excuse?
Jimmy Fallon
#49. A famous actor told me once - I don't want to name names, I hate that sort of thing - but I was at his house and he said, 'Are you on Twitter?' I said, 'Yes, I am.' And he said, 'There'll be one day when you'll have, like, five friends. And in the same day it'll go to five thousand.'
Sam Claflin
#50. Why does anybody want to be famous? You know what's important to me? Having lunch! Pasta! Seeing my friends! Is that so crazy?
Sherry Stringfield
#52. Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.
Lili Taylor
#54. You will never be pretty enough, skinny enough, smart enough, successful enough, or famous enough for the media
Brooke Stonex
#55. I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
Kate Winslet
#56. Don't let anyone - no matter how important, famous, or powerful - make you feel ashamed about standing up for your boundaries.
Violet Blue
#57. A matter, as the famous book intoned, of finding the shade of the parachute that best complemented you. But really: With no parachute at all you'd hit the pavement so hard it probably wouldn't even hurt, and you'd unleash a whole new color palate-bone, blood, muscle-in the process.
Elisa Albert
#58. For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle "Why are you here?" and the reply took three years.
Terry Pratchett
#59. We apply reality from within. The world is our perception of the world. So what other people think of you, famous or not, is an independent construct taking place in their brain, and we shouldn't worry too much about it.
Russell Brand
#60. If you're lucky enough to be famous, then it's great if you can use your fame and the power your fame gives you to draw attention to things that really matter.
Michael Schumacher
#61. I'll never, ever think of myself as famous, even if I ever get to the point of George Clooney ... because I Think you might go crazy if you start reffering to yourself in those terms.
Shailene Woodley
#62. Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
Jarvis Cocker
#63. You wanna another truth?
Do you have the guts??
To hear it?
Do you have the money to pay for it?
...
The adults make the children miserable, the adults kill children, the adults abuse the children, the adults have made the world, famous as now which you see it...
Deyth Banger
#64. I used to think no one should go into show biz, but now I feel differently. I now feel like it's a great career. If you can do it and make money at it and still not be so famous that you can have a normal life - then I think it's a great career.
Julia Sweeney
#66. I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.
Trip Hawkins
#67. People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
Vanessa Paradis
#68. Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.
Michael Palin
#69. There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.
Kim Kardashian
#70. The smile of a stranger can lead you into your joy
Liz Hester
#72. I met so many people after I got rich and famous, and I learned that you can't ultimately trust people unless they were your friends when you were broke.
Chris Rock
#73. I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
Dana Carvey
#74. Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
Chris Evert
#75. You don't have to be famous to be great.
Rick Warren
#76. Hope you don't judge me. Cause me and you are not all that different. You made me this way, you made me famous. You all assisted.
Drake
#77. You hear horror stories about scary mothers who just want their kids to be famous. I could be waitressing in a restaurant, and my mum would be happy as long as I was happy.
Maisie Williams
#78. If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.
Patrick Swayze
#79. Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?
Tim Curry
#80. Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
Penn Jillette
#81. Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.
Derek Sivers
#82. Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.
Don Johnson
#83. The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
Simon Sinek
#84. Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything. It does not necessarily bring happiness or peace of mind. It comes about through following dharma.
Frederick Lenz
#85. The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, Girl in stall No. 1 were you in Mystic Pizza? I paused and I said, yeah that was me.
Julia Roberts
#86. 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
#87. Once you become famous, you can't become unfamous. You can become a failure.
Alexander Hanson
#88. You call it madness, but I call it love.
Don Byas
#89. You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
Imelda Staunton
#90. You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.
Winston Churchill
#91. I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.
Sarah Hyland
#92. I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.
Ruth Negga
#93. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.
Boris Kodjoe
#94. I could have been a dental hygienist with nothing bad ever appearing in print about me, but that's not how I've chosen to lead my life. I knew that you put yourself under a microscope the more famous you become.
Julia Roberts
#95. It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.
Marion Jones
#96. Our marriage is like anybody's marriage, It goes through ups and downs. It's a little garden that you have to tend all the time. When we're home, it's not like we walk around all dolled up going, We are celebrities! We are famous! I change diapers. I clean up dog doo.
Bruce Willis
#97. 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.
Danny Strong
#98. You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
Kinky Friedman
#99. People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
Ja Rule
#100. Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.
Steve Kaufman
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