Quotes About Being Famous

#1. 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

#2. Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

Frida Lyngstad

#3. 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

#4. I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Paul Lynde

#5. I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't.

Noel Gallagher

#6. 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

#7. All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.

Samantha Fox

#8. I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.

Helen Slater

#9. It was never about winning medals or being famous.

Nancy Kerrigan

#10. Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

Danica McKellar

#11. The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.

Margot Kidder

#12. I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

Kid Rock

#13. On being asked by someone how he could become famous, Diogenes responded: 'By worrying as little as possible about fame

Diogenes

#14. I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Ken Kesey

#15. 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

#16. I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

Yao Ming

#17. 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

#18. His being famous didn't give him a right to use her and treat her like dirt.

Michelle Madow

#19. I never wanted fame, of all things, and I'm not just being cheeky. There are benefits that come with being famous, but there's also confusion. It's important to make sure your feet stay on the ground.

Grace Park

#20. Being famous very often means sacrificing your privacy and that of others. You have to impose on those close to you a pace and lifestyle that might be a bigger sacrifice for others than it is for you.

Giorgio Armani

#21. I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

Rebecca Black

#22. 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

#23. I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

Pharrell Williams

#24. I do not like being famous. I like being normal.

Vince Gill

#25. 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

#26. I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

James Ellroy

#27. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

Tom Felton

#28. If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

Trey Parker

#29. The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

Jesse Eisenberg

#30. Being famous is like putting yourself on a pedestal for the entire world to see, and not caring about what judgements are made of you.

Chris Colfer

#31. Once you become famous, being single becomes a liability.

Joe Manganiello

#32. Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

Jimmy Buffett

#33. Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

Dallas Willard

#34. There's nothing to be said for being famous. It's a pain. You can't be rude to people - it's inexcusable not to be nice. Anyway, it's not in my nature. I was trained to be nice.

Terry Wogan

#35. 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

#36. Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Douglas Coupland

#37. You know you're really famous when there's rumors about you being gay.

Jared Leto

#38. Let the famous not denounce fame. Far from being empty and meaningless, it fills those it touches with divine power.

Franz Grillparzer

#39. Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

Sean Lennon

#40. 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.

Johnny Depp

#41. 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

#42. I always wanted to be famous because I thought that if I couldn't be good [at something], I'd be famous. I was never really good. I was just something different and I got to be famous for being different.

Cher

#43. Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

Rupert Grint

#44. I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

Nadya Suleman

#45. I think being famous is more of a hindrance, a constraint, than just letting yourself be free.

Martin Yan

#46. I really hate the duties of being a celebrity, like getting dressed up for the red carpet.

America Ferrera

#47. You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Tony Hawk

#48. Today our youth is preoccupied with being rich and famous but is truly missing something. Sadly ... even money won't last if you're not educated. Knowledge Is Everything!

Timothy Pina

#49. Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.

Tim Curry

#50. Being famous is like a dream come true but it's really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don't want to lose being a kid.

Miley Cyrus

#51. The thing I love most about being famous is people listening to me when I have something important to say.

Madonna Ciccone

#52. I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.

Maureen Johnson

#53. As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

George Bernard Shaw

#54. Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

Johnny Mathis

#55. 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.

Colin Wilson

#56. There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

Rashida Jones

#57. I'd change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That's just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.

Jason Clarke

#58. There is this power that comes with being famous.

Rod Stewart

#59. One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

Samantha Bond

#60. Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphorically speaking, of a hearing for your new idea, but after that, it's going to tank if you don't have the evidence and support for it.

Michael Shermer

#61. Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.

Robin Williams

#62. For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

Tony Levin

#63. Needed the very famous actor to know that you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way. But

Rachel Joyce

#64. I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

Gary Oldman

#65. If you are a giant mountain, you cannot escape from being famous; all that you can do is to pray for the fog to cover you up!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. Being famous without honor is a thing of no worth.

Alaric Longward

#67. 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

#68. Avoid being narrow-minded; it's a fat world.

Benny Bellamacina

#69. I've learned now to talk, act or walk famous. I can still walk around New York, without being molested or bothered. I don't mind autographs - that's part of it. I just do not see the point of being "out there" or behaving outrageously. It will bring nothing but trouble.

Norah Jones

#70. I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

Saul Leiter

#71. I have this fascination with being on the road, all things music, and the '70s. My favorite movie is 'Almost Famous.'

Brittany Snow

#72. 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.

Amy Winehouse

#73. I'd prefer to go under the radar and just do the acting without being famous for it.

Kelly Reilly

#74. It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

Kate Adie

#75. 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

#76. I like being famous. It can be a bit of a pain but you get free food in restaurants and people send you clothes.

Noel Gallagher

#77. Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

Adele

#78. Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul.

Annette Bening

#79. Being a famous singer or an international singer - that's my dream, too, but my main goal is to be a real student and be able to graduate and be a lawyer and have my own business.

Charice Pempengco

#80. He has Axel's protectiveness without being over the top. If what Melissa tells us is correct, he shares Greg's bedroom skills. He has that huge heart of gold that Beck is famous for. And of course, he shares Maddox's strength and determination.

Harper Sloan

#81. I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Alison Lohman

#82. When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

Rick Astley

#83. Being humble is cooler than being famous.

Robin Sharma

#84. While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

Pat Brown

#85. Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

Anais Nin

#86. Being rich and famous has never been my goal at all. I love to act and I want to be able to do really great parts.

Jenn Proske

#87. I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

Katharine Isabelle

#88. All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible is full of crime stories. You can almost flip to a page. Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers is a crime story. The Bible is full of crime stories.

Bill James

#89. Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.

Philippe Petit

#90. I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.

James Woods

#91. Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour.

Rick Astley

#92. I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Kylie Minogue

#93. A celebrity is someone famous for being well known

Morris Fishbein

#94. I never enjoyed being famous.

Elaine Paige

#95. Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

Bill Watterson

#96. I was a little boy singing sad songs, about 9 or 10 years old in the woods. I listened to my voice coming back to me. It was as high as you could go. I dreamed of being famous as a singer when I was on those cotton fields. I wanted to see the world and meet people.

Percy Sledge

#97. I was always told to avoid being famous just for being famous. That's something that has always stuck in my mind. I like to work. It helps if you like what you do.

Naomi Campbell

#98. I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

John Le Carre

#99. An honest being who does not behave absurdly has no
chance at all of becoming famous, or even of being noticed, however kind
and sensible he may be.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#100. I love being famous - it's phenomenal.

Dave Chappelle