Not Very Famous Quotes

#1. I'm not as famous as Stephen Hawking, but certainly in the U.S., I have a very high profile for a scientist. It is an awesome responsibility, one that I don't shoulder lightly. - Author: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. The Nobel prize is unquestionably the most famous prize in the world, and very often, the prize is an object of prestige not only for a person but also for a research center, a country, or for a particular area of interest. - Author: Klaus Von Klitzing

#3. 'Heavenly Creatures' was really the idea of Fran Walsh. It was a very famous New Zealand murder case, but not one that people knew much about. - Author: Peter Jackson

#4. 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. - Author: Derek Sivers

#5. You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me. - Author: Imelda Staunton

#6. When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance. - Author: Beth Ditto

#7. I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things. - Author: Kurt Masur

#8. One of the problems with being famous is people mob you wherever you go. Many of them ask very irritating questions. If I were not the shortest woman in the world, I would not have become famous. - Author: Jyoti Amge

#9. I didn't feel good about cutting out parts of very famous speeches, ... You think you somehow need all of it or you get none of it, but that's not true. - Author: Tom Stoppard

#10. I am very well known in the world of darts and in my home town of Southam but unfortunately women's darts does not have the high profile of the men's game and so is not featured on TV very much. I think you need to be seen on world wide TV to become really famous. - Author: Trina Gulliver

#11. I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet ... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave. - Author: Elizabeth Hurley

#12. I know that I'm a very different person on my own than I am with someone else. We are different with each other. These things are constantly adjusted. And that's true of humans. That's not just true of famous people. - Author: Toby Jones

#13. It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves. - Author: David Ayer

#14. I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous. - Author: Lily Allen

#15. People who are well-known, famous people, I think, make very poor characters for fiction. They make good characters for gossip columns. But not for fiction. - Author: Fran Lebowitz

#16. I'm following my dreams and doing what I love as a designer. I did not want to be one of those kids with a famous last name that doesn't do anything. That is very unfulfilling to me and I'm very happy. - Author: Nicky Hilton

#17. I am a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Aren't we all? I teach meditation to many different types of people, you mentioned celebrities. I also teach meditation to many people who are not famous, but are, in my eyes, very important. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#18. I don't think famous is what I necessarily went for. The media was never something I really looked into and as I see it happening to me, I think I was very smart when I was younger to not want that. It doesn't mean it's not going to happen, I just avoided it as much as possible. - Author: Miley Cyrus

#19. The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous. - Author: Johannes Brahms

#20. I do not love famous nightclubs. They make me feel very cheerless and abandoned. Am I applying that word correctly? Abandoned? - Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

#21. I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people. - Author: Diane Kruger

#22. 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. - Author: Dave Barry

#23. Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty. - Author: Johnny Depp

#24. Being very famous is not the fun it sounds. It merely means you're being chased by a lot of people and you lose your privacy. - Author: Colin Wilson

#25. 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. - Author: Marianne Williamson

#26. I'm not trying to stay away from being a celebrity, I'm not saying, 'I'm sooo not famous,' I'm trying to continue being a musician in a time when everyone is very celebrity-led. - Author: Amy Winehouse

#27. I was definitely not the kid that just wanted to be famous for no reason whatsoever and then happened to find comedy. Fame and all that stuff have always been slightly terrifying to me, and it makes me very anxious. - Author: Bo Burnham

#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. - Author: Dax Shepard

#29. I've always warned my clients about fame being very dangerous, and unfortunately, they need to be famous to make a living, but not to be flippant with it, that it could kill them, and to always keep their eye on it. There was no reason for me to do it. I don't make my money off fame, not my fame. - Author: Shep Gordon

#30. For I make others say what I cannot say so well, ... I do not count my borrowings, but, weight them ... They are all, or very nearly all, from such famous and ancient names that they seem to identify themselves enough without me. - Author: Michel De Montaigne

#31. I mean he's a very famous director ... they're not going to put their ... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay. - Author: Ronald Harwood

#32. If you feel that ... what you do this year or in the years to come does not make you very famous, take heart. Most of the best people who ever lived weren't very famous either. - Author: Howard W. Hunter

#33. A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in. - Author: Shirley Manson

#34. I'm not famous; I am simply very well-known to certain people. Famous is something different. - Author: Anton Corbijn

#35. 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. - Author: P. J. O'Rourke

#36. Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame. - Author: Peter Carey